RE: a freeradious/wireless solution for a school

Quoting "King, Michael" <MKing@bridgew.edu>:

> You configure your client to use TTLS or PEAP, and upon connecting to
> the network, they will be prompted to enter username and password. If
> they don't have one, they don't get on. If they do have one, they get
> on.
>
This also solves your problem of having to give out a cert to each client as
both of these only require a server side cert. You could then purchase a
certificate from a trusted CA and that would already be in their browsers list
of Trusted CA's.

Here are a couple of howto's the first is for a Linux supplicant and the second
is for using a Windows supplicant. What's a supplicant? The client.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/8021X-HOWTO/

http://text.dslreports.com/forum/rem...6052~mode=flat

Hope that helps,

Jon
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