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FreeRADIUS Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   FreeRADIUS Beginner's Guide Master authentication, authorization, and accessing your network resources using FreeRADIUS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849514088
Length 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to AAA and RADIUS FREE CHAPTER 2. Installation 3. Getting Started with FreeRADIUS 4. Authentication 5. Sources of Usernames and Passwords 6. Accounting 7. Authorization 8. Virtual Servers 9. Modules 10. EAP 11. Dictionaries 12. Roaming and Proxying 13. Troubleshooting A. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Have a go hero – testing proxying of EAP authentication

Test the proxying of EAP authentication between my-org.com and your-org.com by doing the same set of tests that was listed in the table earlier. You will notice that the reply AVPs will be missing when running tunneled EAP methods. To enable the return of reply AVPs in these EAP methods, be sure to change the following directive in the peap and ttls sections inside the eap.conf file located under the FreeRADIUS configuration directory from use_tunneled_reply = no to use_tunneled_reply = yes.

Note

The proxying of tunneled EAP methods never exposes the user details and passwords located inside the tunnel to the RADIUS servers that forward the request. This is more secure than other authentication protocols like PAP.

Removing and replacing reply attributes

Since you have no control over the AVPs that are returned from an external home server, it is simply good practice to manage these attributes and their values after they are returned...

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