Hello,

Correct, I’m referring to the computer authentication mode on the windows 
supplicant setup.

All authentication interaction would logged into the 
/usr/local/pf/logs/packetfence.log you do the following:

grep MAC-ADDRESS /usr/local/pf/logs/packetfence.log  

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> On Mar 6, 2024, at 6:09 AM, Jochen Ackermann via PacketFence-users 
> <packetfence-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
> Hello Ludovic,
> 
> the authentication mode on the computer (windows, wired autoconfig) is set to 
> "computer authentication" or do you refer to a setting within packetfence? 
> The PF authentication Source uses servicePricipalName as Username Attribute, 
> is there any other setting to come into play? Wouldn't packetfence know from 
> the prefix /host (or hostname$) to interpret the name as machine-name? Would 
> there be any helpful information in the debug logs.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
>   Jochen
> 
> 
> On 05.03.2024 17:25, Zammit, Ludovic wrote:
>> I think the answer is that you have to do computer authentication only, 
>> because I think you do computer + user authentication and the user 
>> authentication overrides the computer authentication.
>>> 
>>> We would like to use packetfence for Dot1X EAP-TLS authentication based on 
>>> machine certificates with the hostname as the TLS-Client-Cert-Common-Name 
>>> (the user of the machine afterwards authenticates against AD directly).
>>> The role-mapping and authentication itself in PF works well, but as a sort 
>>> of irksome result the authenticated (and auto-registered) machine lists on 
>>> the Nodes tab with the corresponding MAC address and an empty computername. 
>>> Instead the hostname is shown as owner and the machine name is registered 
>>> under the Users tab with the FQDN, together with other regular (i.e. 
>>> "real") user's accounts.
>>> Auditing->Node Information shows Computer Name N/A and username 
>>> host/hostname.domain.tld
>>> The Authentication Source uses servicePricipalName as Username Attribute, 
>>> that is the only hint I found to distingish between user and machine 
>>> authentication.
>>> Is there some way to treat the hostname to show up as node instead of user 
>>> as normally indicated by the form host/... or hostname$
> 
> 
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