Emily,

Your basic problem is that you need a RADIUS server that can speak to
the directory you have.

I'm sure commercial solutions can play here, but I'd imagine that
FreeRADIUS (http://www.freeradius.org) can authenticate your users
against your existing Linux user file.  (This is what it sounds like you
are doing)

Once you have a RADIUS server that can access your user database, it's a
simple step to implement 802.1x  User retraining however is a
considerable issue.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Emily Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 2:09 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] 802.1x without AD or LDAP?

I am curious if anyone has (successfully) implemented WPA/802.1x with
authentication via RADIUS to something OTHER than Active Directory or
LDAP.  We unfortunately are somewhat behind in our method of campus-wide
user management - LDAP is coming in 2008 but for now we have to make do
with authenticating against Linux servers.  Last year we used static WEP
with Webauth, using a RADIUS script for user/password verification.
That means two configurations and way too much user training, so we
wanted to do something a little less cumbersome this year.

FYI we're using Meru MC3000 and AP208s.

Any replies would be appreciated - thank you!

-- 
Emily Harris, BC '95
Associate Director, Network & Systems
Barnard College, MINS Department
3009 Broadway, New York, NY
212-854-8795

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