Hi,

Thanks for the reply! I hoped that this can be done, the question is how :)

I understand that sending the MAC address is MAC auth. On the switch both MAC 
and 802.1x are enabled. I can disable MAC auth.

" Then the windows supplicant can send the username and a password hash which 
can be checked against AD.
Make sure the windows supplicant service is running."

How is it checked? Is it automatically passed to the Domain Controller or 
something has to be configured?
Which service do you mean?

I saw there are options for WMI for example to do some checks. Do they work?


Thanks!

Gábor Barócsi
Network and System Engineer





From: Louis Munro [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 2016. március 1. 22:43
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PacketFence-users] how EAP works with AD and some basic questions



On Mar 1, 2016, at 16:25 , BARÓCSI Gábor <[email protected]> wrote:

Please help me understand Packetfence philosophy.  I see that you are very 
helpful in the mail list. I just need you to give me some push to the right 
direction :) Let me describe the situation. We have a working network, with a 
windows AD. I prepared a switch for testing (in production mode), with 
isolation, registration, management vlans.
I run Packetfance on a physical machine. I did set up the switch to communicate 
with pcketfence by radius. 
Now, if I connect a notebook to the switch, it is sending the mac address of 
the client to packetfence, then pf sets the port to the registration vlan and 
the client gets and IP address from the registration subnet pool.

What you describe here is called MAC authentication (over RADIUS).



I set up pf to our domain network. I set up realm, also I set up source as AD 
validation (first I want to check if user or computer is member of a group or 
member of AD).

My main problem is that can I somehow avoid the registration through captive 
portal? Can the username/password or computer/hostname be used as an 
authentication? I just want to avoid all users to have to manually authenticate 
on the captive portal. Is that possible? I hope yes, as packetfence can query 
the AD domain. Packetfence is also joined to the windows domain.

Yes. That’s possible.
But not with MAC authentication.

You need to configure the switch to use 802.1x.
Then the windows supplicant can send the username and a password hash which can 
be checked against AD.
Make sure the windows supplicant service is running.

You can then define a VLAN filter to automatically register the user if the 
credentials are valid.

Look into conf/vlan_filters.conf.example.


My next step would be to manage this work on wifi, we have Ruckus AP's with 
zonedirector. (It worked fine with windows NAP) 
Next, How can I set up to check if user is member of group? 

Configure rules under your Active-Directory source in PacketFence to check for 
them using LDAP.


And how can I check state of Firewall, antivirus and so? 

Not with PacketFence. 
That is something else entirely, and requires an agent running on the 
connecting device.
PacketFence does integrate with some Mobile Device Management software, notably 
OPSWat.



Can I be checked before the access to the network? I just want to avoid logging 
into a captive portal as it takes time for the users! This would remain for 
mobile or guests. We can force users to set 802.1x authentication for the 
network interface it is not a problem. There we can set network authentication 
method like PEAP or EAP-MSCHAP v2. 

What you want is called autoregistration.
Configure 802.1x, make sure the server is joined to the Active-Directory domain 
and configure a VLAN filter using "scope = AutoRegister”.

Regards,
--
Louis Munro
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