[Cialug] Wireless Authentication with Open Source tools

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
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> I am interested in creating a wireless authentication system using open source tools for a small, fairly static set of users.  I want them all to have unique passcodes or passwords/phrases or keys for their access that can be revoked.  Does anyone have personal experience with any open source tools for this?  Are there any distros with the tools baked in?

Are you talking WPA2-Enterprise? Or some sort of hotel/airport
hot-spot type implementation?  Personally, I'd go with
WPA2-Enterprise. Pretty much every distro should have FreeRADIUS,
which should do everything you need.  It can be a pain though getting
all the settings figured out though, especially as wireless clients
etc rarely give good feedback as to what's wrong.  The last time I
messed with it the documentation/howtos/blog posts that you can find
through google seemed incomplete or out of date so it's going to take
some trial and error.

There's also going to be some pain dealing with bugs/"features" in
wireless drivers, especially

Also, you'll need to make sure that your access points support
WPA2-Enterprise, of course.

-- 
Jeff Ollie