"Adrian Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The client certificate for bridge was created with openssl and issued to
> "Ethernet Bridge".  Whats odd here, is that with this certificate I'm able
> to log into the radius server with the username "Ethernet Bridge" (As typed
> into the login window in XP when logging into the network) even though that
> user doesn't exist in the configuration, how is this possible, is freeradius
> automatically allowing this user to login because the client certificate
> validates?

  Yes.  FreeRADIUS doesn't need a username to authenticate a request.
The various modules make that decision on their own.  For EAP-TLS, if
the certificate validates, then that request is OK.

> Heres a line from the log, what's also odd here is that my firewall (sygate)
> appears to me mangling the name somewhat, so there's a load of junk after
> the name.
> 
> Sat Feb 12 10:49:49 2005 : Auth: Login OK: [Ethernet
> Bridge\000\000\377\034SygateSecurityAgent\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000]
> (from client WLAN port 0)

  Hmm... that's not nice.  The firewall shouldn't be doing that.

  Alan DeKok.


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