Re: Somewhat OT: Captive portal on acess points instead complex supplicant at level end user?

2009-01-02 Thread ahmed adel
Hi
I have implemented before Chillispot with freeradius as a captive protal 
aslo you may try CoovaChilli (http://coova.org/wiki/index.php/CoovaChilli) 
which is based on chillispot and it should work smoothly.







From: Sergio Belkin 
To: FreeRadius users mailing list 
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 3:54:20 AM
Subject: Somewhat OT: Captive portal on acess points instead complex supplicant 
at level end user?

Hi,

Currently I'm using:

*OpenWRT Kamikaze in AP's
*Freeradius 2.1.2
*LDAP

End users either use ttls or peap on their notebooks, as I have a LDAP
server, each use his username and a password.

Problem with this approach is that is somewhat complex for end users,
they must either install a software or do a complicated configuration
(think in end users terms, please). I'd want to have a open wireless
network and that each user access to captive portal and enter his
username and password, that captive portal "redirects" request to
freeradius and freeradius in turn queries to ldap server.

I'd want to know if CoovaAP (or something similar, what?) can perform
such task as portal captive installed on APs.

I'd be glad to read suggestions

Thanks in advance!!

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Re: Somewhat OT: Captive portal on acess points instead complex?supplicant at level end user?

2008-12-15 Thread Sergio Belkin
2008/12/15 Alexander Clouter :
> Sergio Belkin  wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for ideas,
>>
>> In fact, some things you suggest I am using right now :) for example:
>>
>> *Automatized SecureW2 installer (ttls)
>> *Web Page with "secondary" password for peap
>>
>> But even so, some users find somewhat hard to use.
>>
> We seem to have no real problems with SecureW2 and our userbase.  Mac OS
> X users 'import' the configuration (if they are 10.3 or 10.4) and WinXP
> users get a light time of it would my SecureW2 preconfiguration script
> with some NSIS wrapper action to spoonfeed them during problematic bits.
>
> Of course SecureW2 + WinXP + SP3 + wired 802.1X is fruity at the moment
> which is out current problem, however that's a grumble for another
> thread.
>
> The only problems we have is that we are 'awkward' and force WPA2 only
> and do not give into those WPA (version 1) TKIP weenies.
>
>> I've tried with no success at this moment use more than one SSID on
>> OpenWRT on Linksys WRT54GL...
>>
> Do not ever go down this route[1].  It completely negates the point of
> having a WPA Enterprise network when someone comes along with an evil
> twin network and gets the user to install a 'springboard' application to
> get onto the better network.  It's as counterproductive as using
> PEAP/TTLS without full certificate validation :-/
>
> If you want my NSIS and/or SecureW2 INF file do drop me an email.  The
> springboard'ing issue we resolved by dumping everything onto a CD and
> distributed them to the masses that way.  Even if this is not an option
> for you (like us in education with 'student welcome packs') if you make
> the CD's readily available near hotspots and what not in public areas
> people will find what they need.
>
> Cheers
>
> Alex
>
> [1] I have convinced my self it's safe for a wired network, getting
>non-802.1X clients 802.1X'ified, but just not worth the risk for
>wireless clients
>
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Recently we upgraded from OpenWrt White Russian to Kamikaze.

By now, problem about discarding packets is no more.

 Most of the issues were that at random times took long time get
Access-Accept or even AP din't get any frames from supplicants...

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Re: Somewhat OT: Captive portal on acess points instead complex?supplicant at level end user?

2008-12-15 Thread Alexander Clouter
Sergio Belkin  wrote:
>
> Thanks for ideas,
> 
> In fact, some things you suggest I am using right now :) for example:
> 
> *Automatized SecureW2 installer (ttls)
> *Web Page with "secondary" password for peap
> 
> But even so, some users find somewhat hard to use.
>
We seem to have no real problems with SecureW2 and our userbase.  Mac OS 
X users 'import' the configuration (if they are 10.3 or 10.4) and WinXP 
users get a light time of it would my SecureW2 preconfiguration script 
with some NSIS wrapper action to spoonfeed them during problematic bits.

Of course SecureW2 + WinXP + SP3 + wired 802.1X is fruity at the moment 
which is out current problem, however that's a grumble for another 
thread.

The only problems we have is that we are 'awkward' and force WPA2 only 
and do not give into those WPA (version 1) TKIP weenies.

> I've tried with no success at this moment use more than one SSID on
> OpenWRT on Linksys WRT54GL...
> 
Do not ever go down this route[1].  It completely negates the point of 
having a WPA Enterprise network when someone comes along with an evil 
twin network and gets the user to install a 'springboard' application to 
get onto the better network.  It's as counterproductive as using 
PEAP/TTLS without full certificate validation :-/

If you want my NSIS and/or SecureW2 INF file do drop me an email.  The 
springboard'ing issue we resolved by dumping everything onto a CD and 
distributed them to the masses that way.  Even if this is not an option 
for you (like us in education with 'student welcome packs') if you make 
the CD's readily available near hotspots and what not in public areas 
people will find what they need.

Cheers

Alex

[1] I have convinced my self it's safe for a wired network, getting 
non-802.1X clients 802.1X'ified, but just not worth the risk for 
wireless clients

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Re: Somewhat OT: Captive portal on acess points instead complex supplicant at level end user?

2008-12-15 Thread Sergio Belkin
2008/12/15  :
> hi,
>
> why go backwards when you have the right wireless
> technology in place?  you need to look at the windows
> client end of things.  I'd suggest looking at automating
> the setup..the best thing would be to have another
> wireless SSID (eg 'setup for XYZ' - where XYZ is your current
> SSID) - and have that as an open wifi that can only (ONLY!)
> access one single IP on which lives a web server with auto
> setup tools - eg .NET or VBS for MS windows, XML for MAC
> and even a setup file for iPhone/iPod touch etc.  (this
> would have to be a webredirect so as soon as they
> associate, any DNS or port 80/8080/3128 etc get sent to the
> index page.) - another web delivery option is to prepackage
> eg open1x (open1x.sf.net) or SecureW2 (another supplicant)
> and get them to use that
>
> as you did note, the problem is with the client setup..
> thats the current difficulty with 802.1X.
>
> alan
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Thanks for ideas,

In fact, some things you suggest I am using right now :) for example:

*Automatized SecureW2 installer (ttls)
*Web Page with "secondary" password for peap

But even so, some users find somewhat hard to use.

I've tried with no success at this moment use more than one SSID on
OpenWRT on Linksys WRT54GL...

All in all, you and Paul have provided me interesting info...

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Re: Somewhat OT: Captive portal on acess points instead complex supplicant at level end user?

2008-12-14 Thread A . L . M . Buxey
hi,

why go backwards when you have the right wireless
technology in place?  you need to look at the windows
client end of things.  I'd suggest looking at automating
the setup..the best thing would be to have another
wireless SSID (eg 'setup for XYZ' - where XYZ is your current
SSID) - and have that as an open wifi that can only (ONLY!)
access one single IP on which lives a web server with auto
setup tools - eg .NET or VBS for MS windows, XML for MAC
and even a setup file for iPhone/iPod touch etc.  (this
would have to be a webredirect so as soon as they
associate, any DNS or port 80/8080/3128 etc get sent to the
index page.) - another web delivery option is to prepackage
eg open1x (open1x.sf.net) or SecureW2 (another supplicant)
and get them to use that

as you did note, the problem is with the client setup..
thats the current difficulty with 802.1X.

alan
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Re: Somewhat OT: Captive portal on acess points instead complex supplicant at level end user?

2008-12-14 Thread Paul Bartell
This is exactly what Coova does. It blocks all access to the network,
until a correct username/password combination is made. The downfall to
such a system is 1. No encryption, and 2. Any somewhat-knowing
script-kiddie can spoof a mac address and hijack someone's session.

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Sergio Belkin  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Currently I'm using:
>
> *OpenWRT Kamikaze in AP's
> *Freeradius 2.1.2
> *LDAP
>
> End users either use ttls or peap on their notebooks, as I have a LDAP
> server, each use his username and a password.
>
> Problem with this approach is that is somewhat complex for end users,
> they must either install a software or do a complicated configuration
> (think in end users terms, please). I'd want to have a open wireless
> network and that each user access to captive portal and enter his
> username and password, that captive portal "redirects" request to
> freeradius and freeradius in turn queries to ldap server.
>
> I'd want to know if CoovaAP (or something similar, what?) can perform
> such task as portal captive installed on APs.
>
> I'd be glad to read suggestions
>
> Thanks in advance!!
>
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Somewhat OT: Captive portal on acess points instead complex supplicant at level end user?

2008-12-14 Thread Sergio Belkin
Hi,

Currently I'm using:

*OpenWRT Kamikaze in AP's
*Freeradius 2.1.2
*LDAP

End users either use ttls or peap on their notebooks, as I have a LDAP
server, each use his username and a password.

Problem with this approach is that is somewhat complex for end users,
they must either install a software or do a complicated configuration
(think in end users terms, please). I'd want to have a open wireless
network and that each user access to captive portal and enter his
username and password, that captive portal "redirects" request to
freeradius and freeradius in turn queries to ldap server.

I'd want to know if CoovaAP (or something similar, what?) can perform
such task as portal captive installed on APs.

I'd be glad to read suggestions

Thanks in advance!!

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