Thank you Fabrice, that clears a lot many things, I just confirmed as you explained and it works great. Just to further understand the above config, the PacketFence still uses the internal radius to communicate all the stuff with switch. That is, local authentication is achieved with the help of built-in radius of PacketFence.
Thanks Ali On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 11:54 AM Durand fabrice <fdur...@inverse.ca> wrote: > Hello Ali , > > ok so no need to create a Radius Authentication source. > > What you just need to do is the following: > > be sure that the password encryption is nthash or cleartext. > > uncomment packetfence-local-auth > > create a connection profile with a filter like SSID = my_SSID > > and select the source local. > > > Then create your switch on the PacketFence side with the same shared > secret (pf and switch side). > > Create users in the user tab and assign them the correct role and access > duration. > > And you will be good. > > Regards > > Fabrice > > > Le 18-11-13 à 22 h 35, Amjad Ali a écrit : > > Hi Durand, > > Much appreciate the quick response, actually our use case is such that we > want to authenticate clients directly against PF/Radius, without going to > portal. For that I have uncommented the *packetfence-local-auth* in > */usr/local/pf/conf/radiusd/packetfence-tunnel* > > *You think that makes sense?* > > *Thanks,* > *Ali* > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 11:12 AM Durand fabrice via PacketFence-users < > packetfence-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > >> Hello Ali, >> >> In Radius source timeout will be the time you allow the radius source to >> answer and shared secret is the shared secret between the pf and the radius >> server. >> >> Btw the Radius source is a way to do the authentication on the portal. >> >> Shared secret in the switch config is the shared secret between the >> switch (you defined it in the switch configuration) and Packetfence. >> >> Regards >> >> Fabrice >> >> >> Le 18-11-13 à 21 h 59, Amjad Ali via PacketFence-users a écrit : >> >> Hi All, >> >> When setting up internal radius in PF, whats the purpose of Timeout and >> Secret? >> Secondly when we add a switch there is a Radius tab where we put Secret >> key, whats the relations between these two keys? Why is secret added in two >> different places? >> >> Thanks >> Ali >> >> -- >> Amjad Ali >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> PacketFence-users mailing >> listPacketFence-users@lists.sourceforge.nethttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users >> >> _______________________________________________ >> PacketFence-users mailing list >> PacketFence-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users >> > > > -- > Amjad Ali > > -- Amjad Ali
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