Re: authenticate machine accounts with ntlm_auth

2005-08-01 Thread Michael Fisher

Kris Benson wrote:


I'm very frustrated now after spending a couple of weeks trying to get
free radius to authenticate my Win2k machine accounts against active
directory. :-(
 


Sorry, blame Microsoft.  It isn't possible, but they don't make it
obvious that it's not possible.

   


Alan, do you know of any way to get this working.  I have been assured
that Funk can do this, have you any idea how Funk are doing it.  Funk
costs too much.  Maybe I'm not allowed to ask such questions.
 


Funk does it by running the radius server on the AD server.  At that
point, they can use *internal* Windows API's or hacks to get at the
data.  Since FreeRADIUS is running externally, it can't use those
API's, and thus won't work.

FreeRADIUS *will* run on XP.  If someone were to write the necessary
code, you could run the server on XP, and do what Funk does.
   



It sounds to me like you're saying this is a server-side issue.  Since AD
is available via LDAP, why couldn't this FreeRadius install just use
rlm_ldap to access the machine account info in AD?

The Microsoft side of things isn't my greatest strength, least of all the
AD/LDAP stuff, but it seems as though this *should* work.

:-)




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AD unfortunatly does not provide the passwords via ldap, the 
authentication gets passed on to  a kerberos implamentation, LDAP just 
provide group information. I'd look in to a solution for radius that is 
able to either athenticate via machine accounts provided via winbindd, 
or an implamentation that is abble to use kerberos for user account 
athentication information.
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Re: authenticate machine accounts with ntlm_auth

2005-08-01 Thread Stefan Winter
Hi,

> It sounds to me like you're saying this is a server-side issue.  Since AD
> is available via LDAP, why couldn't this FreeRadius install just use
> rlm_ldap to access the machine account info in AD?

No. There is one important difference between plain LDAP and AD: an AD server 
will _never_ give away the user's (machine's) password. Never. The closest 
thing you can get is a MS-CHAP challenge that is built from the password, but 
for some reason that doesn't do the trick.

> The Microsoft side of things isn't my greatest strength, least of all the
> AD/LDAP stuff, but it seems as though this *should* work.

It would, if AD would give you the password. But it doesn't.

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Re: authenticate machine accounts with ntlm_auth

2005-08-01 Thread Alan DeKok
"Kris Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It sounds to me like you're saying this is a server-side issue.

  I'm saying the exact opposite.  It's a function of running on
Windows, and it has nothing to do with the RADIUS server.  FreeRADIUS
can run on Windows, and with the right code, it will most likely do
what you want.

>   Since AD
> is available via LDAP, why couldn't this FreeRadius install just use
> rlm_ldap to access the machine account info in AD?

  The AD information you need IS NOT AVAILABLE THROUGH LDAP.

  Alan DeKok.
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Re: authenticate machine accounts with ntlm_auth

2005-07-31 Thread Kris Benson
>> I'm very frustrated now after spending a couple of weeks trying to get
>> free radius to authenticate my Win2k machine accounts against active
>> directory. :-(
>
>  Sorry, blame Microsoft.  It isn't possible, but they don't make it
>obvious that it's not possible.
>
>> Alan, do you know of any way to get this working.  I have been assured
>> that Funk can do this, have you any idea how Funk are doing it.  Funk
>> costs too much.  Maybe I'm not allowed to ask such questions.
>
>  Funk does it by running the radius server on the AD server.  At that
>point, they can use *internal* Windows API's or hacks to get at the
>data.  Since FreeRADIUS is running externally, it can't use those
>API's, and thus won't work.
>
>  FreeRADIUS *will* run on XP.  If someone were to write the necessary
>code, you could run the server on XP, and do what Funk does.

It sounds to me like you're saying this is a server-side issue.  Since AD
is available via LDAP, why couldn't this FreeRadius install just use
rlm_ldap to access the machine account info in AD?

The Microsoft side of things isn't my greatest strength, least of all the
AD/LDAP stuff, but it seems as though this *should* work.

:-)




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Technical Analyst, District Projects
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Re: authenticate machine accounts with ntlm_auth

2005-07-29 Thread Alan DeKok
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm very frustrated now after spending a couple of weeks trying to get
> free radius to authenticate my Win2k machine accounts against active
> directory. :-(

  Sorry, blame Microsoft.  It isn't possible, but they don't make it
obvious that it's not possible.

> Alan, do you know of any way to get this working.  I have been assured
> that Funk can do this, have you any idea how Funk are doing it.  Funk
> costs too much.  Maybe I'm not allowed to ask such questions.

  Funk does it by running the radius server on the AD server.  At that
point, they can use *internal* Windows API's or hacks to get at the
data.  Since FreeRADIUS is running externally, it can't use those
API's, and thus won't work.

  FreeRADIUS *will* run on XP.  If someone were to write the necessary
code, you could run the server on XP, and do what Funk does.

  Alan DeKok.

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RE: authenticate machine accounts with ntlm_auth

2005-07-29 Thread martin.p.bradley
>> j.cluzel wrote:
>> Is it possible to authenticate a machine account with ntlm_auth ?

>No.  AD does not permit that.
>  Alan DeKok.


I'm very frustrated now after spending a couple of weeks trying to get
free radius to authenticate my Win2k machine accounts against active
directory. :-(

Alan, do you know of any way to get this working.  I have been assured
that Funk can do this, have you any idea how Funk are doing it.  Funk
costs too much.  Maybe I'm not allowed to ask such questions.

Regards,
Martin.

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Re: authenticate machine accounts with ntlm_auth

2005-06-30 Thread Alan DeKok
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=E9r=E9my_Cluzel?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it possible to authenticate a machine account with ntlm_auth ?

  No.  AD does not permit that.

  Alan DeKok.
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