shantanu choudhary wrote: > well i want to use database in place of user file. > now as i see one option is using mysql or using LDAP. Unfortunately i am > biased towards LDAP as i have already created my database in it.
That's fine. > and my problem starts here this radius server will come into picture > only when i enable WPA in my AP and when i enable this i cant send > user-password in clear text to server, but my sever which is configured > for LDAP wont understand that "THEN WHY WE HAVE THIS OPTION???????" I don't think you're understanding it. > again even on client side if you use wpa you have to mention eap type, > for windows we dont have more then two options available PEAP and TTLS > not even md5 and all so if they are configured for wpa they wont send > password in clear text then also how will my server authenticate it > using LDAP... http://deployingradius.com/documents/protocols/oracles.html LDAP is a database. It is NOT an authentication server. FreeRADIUS is an authentication server. > my username and password has a big list and i just want to use database > for this connection now can anyone help me out!!! You can use a database. FreeRADIUS takes the clear-text password from the database, and authenticates the user. All of the documentation you're reading is correct. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html