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    • johnpozJ
      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @furom
      last edited by johnpoz

      @furom here you go

      Config from pfsense freerad, settings for my ssid, and the freerad profile that tells the unifi where to go.. And then at the end you can see my phone authing..

      config.jpg

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        furom @johnpoz
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        @johnpoz OMG. That is so helpful! Much appreciated!! It's a bit late to start with that right now, but will try it out tomorrow! :)

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          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @furom
          last edited by johnpoz

          @furom if you need any help - just ask... I do like using a secure eap like eap-tls for my trusted devices on my trust wifi vlan.. I just wish iot devices supported wpa enterprise ;)

          edit:
          keep in mind you do need certs for these users - and getting the profile into say ios can be problematic - it doesn't like no password, etc. so I believe I run it through openssl to create the bundle, etc.

          edit2: just noticed using old cert for my old phone ;) I now have a 13, but its using my old XR cert heheh

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            furom @johnpoz
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            @johnpoz said in freeRadius / Unifi AP / EAP-TTLS ?:

            @furom if you need any help - just ask... I do like using a secure eap like eap-tls for my trusted devices on my trust wifi vlan.. I just wish iot devices supported wpa enterprise ;)

            edit:
            keep in mind you do need certs for these users - and getting the profile into say ios can be problematic - it doesn't like no password, etc. so I believe I run it through openssl to create the bundle, etc.

            edit2: just noticed using old cert for my old phone ;) I now have a 13, but its using my old XR cert heheh

            Good points, I do have the certs I need at least, and know they're good. So a starting point at least, and with all this great help I can't think of what could go south... :)

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              furom @johnpoz
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              @johnpoz said in freeRadius / Unifi AP / EAP-TTLS ?:

              @furom if you need any help - just ask...

              Hi there :) So much at the sam time, but now finally time for EAP-TLS, after all trouble I'm actually a little hesitant to even try, but I do want it too...

              Did you follow any special path or just mended it together? One thing that I see others do, is creating a new separate "Authentication server" for radius, I can't tell if you did so too. This step was one that always failed before...

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              • johnpozJ
                johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @furom
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                @furom you do need too point to freerad on your unifi setup.. Not even sure if you can fire up multiple configs for freerad on pfsense?

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                  furom @johnpoz
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                  @johnpoz said in freeRadius / Unifi AP / EAP-TTLS ?:

                  @furom you do need too point to freerad on your unifi setup.. Not even sure if you can fire up multiple configs for freerad on pfsense?

                  Multiple configs? But yes, the Unifi part is clear I think. What is a little unclear is if this is needed or not?
                  540b7f0b-89df-438e-b356-157ac31586a6-image.png

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                    furom @furom
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                    @furom This is well, embarrassing. I have done to the letter almost what you have. All the options the same etc.
                    But... same step relentlessly fails; verifying the user I create for radius... I have tried with a password I would like, with a very simple one, and it just won't work.
                    Secret is copy/pasted, so is most other duplicated stuff.
                    I will let it be now as you perhaps may have an idea where to look...

                    I finally ran

                    [root@netgate ~]# radsniff -x
                    Logging all events
                    Defaulting to capture on all interfaces
                    

                    which did not show one single thing, so at least it is a big mistake somewhere...

                    Thanks :)

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                    • johnpozJ
                      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @furom
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                      @furom well if you don't send any traffic why do you think radsniff would show anything?

                      [23.01-RELEASE][admin@sg4860.local.lan]/: radsniff -x
                      Logging all events
                      Defaulting to capture on all interfaces
                      Sniffing on (igb0 gif0 tailscale0 igb1 ovpns1 igb2 ovpns2 igb3 ovpnc3 igb4 igb2.4 igb5 igb2.6 lo0 pflog0)
                      2023-05-19 07:29:29.633522 (1) Access-Request Id 76 igb2:192.168.2.2:53793 -> 192.168.2.253:1812 +0.000
                              User-Name = "johnsXR"
                              NAS-IP-Address = 192.168.2.2
                              Service-Type = Framed-User
                              Framed-MTU = 1400
                              Called-Station-Id = "92-2A-A8-15-4F-07:eaptest"
                              Calling-Station-Id = "DC-B5-4F-E0-CB-0A"
                              NAS-Identifier = "922aa8154f07"
                              NAS-Port-Type = Wireless-802.11
                              Acct-Session-Id = "F22A1795681CA8E9"
                              Acct-Multi-Session-Id = "1FBA6C367EEA3D0E"
                              Connect-Info = "CONNECT 0Mbps 802.11b"
                              EAP-Message = 0x0241000c016a6f686e735852
                              Message-Authenticator = 0x07fa33cc7e4eb7acc79a17fc51b1276f
                              WLAN-Pairwise-Cipher = 1027076
                              WLAN-Group-Cipher = 1027076
                              WLAN-AKM-Suite = 1027077
                              WLAN-Group-Mgmt-Cipher = 1027078
                              Authenticator-Field = 0xdbf20706c363d971214aa2a50eff8e22
                      2023-05-19 07:29:29.634308 (2) Access-Challenge Id 76 igb2:192.168.2.2:53793 <- 192.168.2.253:1812 +0.000 +0.000
                              State = 0x4abf79174afd74c05dc342dc6c275b1e
                              EAP-Message = 0x014200060d20
                              Message-Authenticator = 0xe7b9757cb805f64be57083a81435aa69
                              Authenticator-Field = 0x61e113e6640f7b6fb3e8cd28e74b1904
                      2023-05-19 07:29:29.676761 (3) Access-Request Id 77 igb2:192.168.2.2:53793 -> 192.168.2.253:1812 +0.043
                              User-Name = "johnsXR"
                              NAS-IP-Address = 192.168.2.2
                              Service-Type = Framed-User
                              Framed-MTU = 1400
                      

                      Here is my phone coming in from trying to talk one of my AP on 192.168.2.2, do you have a firewall rule setup to allow your AP ips to talk to freerad on port 1812?

                      radsniff would not have anything to do with your setup of freerad, but if stuff is trying to auth to you. You would need to have firewall rules to allow that traffic - sorry if I left that off, but pretty basic that if you have a service listening on 1812, that stuff is going to talk to - your firewall rules would have to allow that.

                      As to setting up authentication server in pfsense - why would that have anything to do with freerad authing users for other devices.. No you don't need to setup anything there.

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                        furom @johnpoz
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                        @johnpoz said in freeRadius / Unifi AP / EAP-TTLS ?:

                        @furom well if you don't send any traffic why do you think radsniff would show anything?

                        I set up radsniff and then tried to diag/auth, but didn't exactly show much.

                        [23.01-RELEASE][admin@sg4860.local.lan]/: radsniff -x
                        Logging all events
                        Defaulting to capture on all interfaces
                        Sniffing on (igb0 gif0 tailscale0 igb1 ovpns1 igb2 ovpns2 igb3 ovpnc3 igb4 igb2.4 igb5 igb2.6 lo0 pflog0)
                        2023-05-19 07:29:29.633522 (1) Access-Request Id 76 igb2:192.168.2.2:53793 -> 192.168.2.253:1812 +0.000
                                User-Name = "johnsXR"
                                NAS-IP-Address = 192.168.2.2
                                Service-Type = Framed-User
                                Framed-MTU = 1400
                                Called-Station-Id = "92-2A-A8-15-4F-07:eaptest"
                                Calling-Station-Id = "DC-B5-4F-E0-CB-0A"
                                NAS-Identifier = "922aa8154f07"
                                NAS-Port-Type = Wireless-802.11
                                Acct-Session-Id = "F22A1795681CA8E9"
                                Acct-Multi-Session-Id = "1FBA6C367EEA3D0E"
                                Connect-Info = "CONNECT 0Mbps 802.11b"
                                EAP-Message = 0x0241000c016a6f686e735852
                                Message-Authenticator = 0x07fa33cc7e4eb7acc79a17fc51b1276f
                                WLAN-Pairwise-Cipher = 1027076
                                WLAN-Group-Cipher = 1027076
                                WLAN-AKM-Suite = 1027077
                                WLAN-Group-Mgmt-Cipher = 1027078
                                Authenticator-Field = 0xdbf20706c363d971214aa2a50eff8e22
                        2023-05-19 07:29:29.634308 (2) Access-Challenge Id 76 igb2:192.168.2.2:53793 <- 192.168.2.253:1812 +0.000 +0.000
                                State = 0x4abf79174afd74c05dc342dc6c275b1e
                                EAP-Message = 0x014200060d20
                                Message-Authenticator = 0xe7b9757cb805f64be57083a81435aa69
                                Authenticator-Field = 0x61e113e6640f7b6fb3e8cd28e74b1904
                        2023-05-19 07:29:29.676761 (3) Access-Request Id 77 igb2:192.168.2.2:53793 -> 192.168.2.253:1812 +0.043
                                User-Name = "johnsXR"
                                NAS-IP-Address = 192.168.2.2
                                Service-Type = Framed-User
                                Framed-MTU = 1400
                        

                        Here is my phone coming in from trying to talk one of my AP on 192.168.2.2, do you have a firewall rule setup to allow your AP ips to talk to freerad on port 1812?

                        radsniff would not have anything to do with your setup of freerad, but if stuff is trying to auth to you. You would need to have firewall rules to allow that traffic - sorry if I left that off, but pretty basic that if you have a service listening on 1812, that stuff is going to talk to - your firewall rules would have to allow that.

                        As to setting up authentication server in pfsense - why would that have anything to do with freerad authing users for other devices.. No you don't need to setup anything there.

                        Ok. And yes, of course I understand I need a firewall rule,
                        f0087dff-85f1-44ca-975c-219c37926127-image.png

                        This should be permissive enough... I bet it's just a tiny thingy somewhere... I have to go over everything again...

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                        • johnpozJ
                          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @furom
                          last edited by johnpoz

                          @furom that rule that it has never been used, see the 0/0 do you have some other rule blocking? Maybe in floating or above that?

                          For unifi to send traffic, you would have to have set up unifi to send to pfsense IP, and then a client would have to try and auth that unifi would talk to your freerad with..

                          Here I went to my controller and ran a stupid radtest test that I knew would fail - but you can see that radsniff saw the traffic

                          user@NewUC:~$ radtest test test 192.168.2.253:1812 10 testing123
                          Sent Access-Request Id 198 from 0.0.0.0:58755 to 192.168.2.253:1812 length 74
                                  User-Name = "test"
                                  User-Password = "test"
                                  NAS-IP-Address = 127.0.1.1
                                  NAS-Port = 10
                                  Message-Authenticator = 0x00
                                  Cleartext-Password = "test"
                          
                          radsniff -x
                          Logging all events
                          Defaulting to capture on all interfaces
                          Sniffing on (igb0 gif0 tailscale0 igb1 ovpns1 igb2 ovpns2 igb3 ovpnc3 igb4 igb2.4 igb5 igb2.6 lo0 pflog0)
                          2023-05-19 08:32:13.321600 (1) Access-Request Id 198 igb2:192.168.2.12:58755 -> 192.168.2.253:1812 +0.000
                                  User-Name = "test"
                                  User-Password = "test"
                                  NAS-IP-Address = 127.0.1.1
                                  NAS-Port = 10
                                  Message-Authenticator = 0xbe0acd5dac7523393e41075bc4372ef1
                                  Authenticator-Field = 0x02eb80a64c53946dfb0a3b65be7baac0
                          2023-05-19 08:32:18.324176 (1) ** rtx ** Access-Request Id 198 igb2:192.168.2.12:58755 -> 192.168.2.253:1812 +5.002
                                  User-Name = "test"
                                  User-Password = "test"
                                  NAS-IP-Address = 127.0.1.1
                                  NAS-Port = 10
                                  Message-Authenticator = 0xbe0acd5dac7523393e41075bc4372ef1
                                  Authenticator-Field = 0x02eb80a64c53946dfb0a3b65be7baac0
                          

                          Here this should give you how to test that freerad is running, etc..

                          https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/packages/freeradius-test.html#testing-the-freeradius-package

                          edit: you know freerad doesn't even need to be running to test that traffic is actually getting to pfsense with radsniff

                          Here I turned off freerad on pfsense.

                          off.jpg

                          radsniff.jpg

                          if you are not seeing radius traffic with radsniff then your not allowing it via firewall, or nothing is sending anything, or they are sending it to wrong IP or port..

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                            furom @johnpoz
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                            @johnpoz I am about to test my wifi without radius just to see that it actually works... :/ Then add radius.

                            In floating I have thise127ea4e-6344-40f8-bde3-a1fd87fd85c6-image.png
                            which as I understand shouldn't impact this...

                            But the most basic still must be to get this diagnostic auth to pass, right? If that checks, all the rest will fall into place...cc6e89a7-3ba2-4050-82bb-225db9911563-image.png

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                              johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @furom
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                              @furom said in freeRadius / Unifi AP / EAP-TTLS ?:

                              diagnostic auth to pass

                              Again - who cares... I would actually validate that traffic hits pfsense via radsniff.. if your network connectivity is not there then doesn't matter if users could auth or not via whatever method.. because it would never work..

                              Do a simple radtest and radsniff test like I did - does radsniff see the traffic - if not not then no matter what you setup or don't setup on pfsense for authing methods its never going to work.

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                                johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @johnpoz
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                                Why do you have raduser in local db? you understand the users in freerad don't have to match up to local users.

                                users.jpg

                                Notice the johnsXR I am authing with my phone isn't in my pfsense users, only that testuser account matches up - and I don't even recall why I had created that.. Going to delete it now ;)

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                                  furom @johnpoz
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                                  @johnpoz said in freeRadius / Unifi AP / EAP-TTLS ?:

                                  Why do you have raduser in local db? you understand the users in freerad don't have to match up to local users.

                                  Hrm... No, I actually didn't. That is why I was nagging about diag/auth. Now I understand why you didn't care about that then.
                                  But on the positive side, I got a reaction from radserver when trying auth from the tablet. I now need to copy over the cert and retry :)

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                                    johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @furom
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                                    @furom guess its time I update all my stuff as well - create like certname that matches my iphone13.. And get my wifes new phone and new ipad - and my cheap android tablet all using eap-tls.

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                                      furom @johnpoz
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                                      @johnpoz Got stuck on some extraction password for the p12 cert, but found an old post from you (2017) where you said to add a password wi openssl, so will try that now...
                                      link text

                                      Also got a firmware update for the well over 10 yr old tablet... I will verify with the vendor before applying that at least... Seems more than unlikely they should update so many years after eol... lol

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                                      • johnpozJ
                                        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @furom
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                                        @furom ok... I created a new CA for my freerad server cert.. So using new ECDSA for both CA and Cert... Created new user cert from for my phone off new CA.. And all connected without any issues.

                                        Since iphone will not install a new profile without a password.. And something to do with iphone and openssl version 3 I think I had to add the -legacy flag in my command to create the .p12 to load on my phone

                                        openssl pkcs12 -legacy -export -certfile NewFreeRad-CA.crt -in JohnsIphone.crt -inkey JohnsIphone.key -out johnsiphone.p12
                                        

                                        So I download the new CA cert, and my new user cert and key... Joined them up into a p12 with password "test" and imported just fine into my iphone.

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                                          furom @johnpoz
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                                          @johnpoz said in freeRadius / Unifi AP / EAP-TTLS ?:

                                          @furom ok... I created a new CA for my freerad server cert.. So using new ECDSA for both CA and Cert... Created new user cert from for my phone off new CA.. And all connected without any issues.

                                          Since iphone will not install a new profile without a password.. And something to do with iphone and openssl version 3 I think I had to add the -legacy flag in my command to create the .p12 to load on my phone

                                          openssl pkcs12 -legacy -export -certfile NewFreeRad-CA.crt -in JohnsIphone.crt -inkey JohnsIphone.key -out johnsiphone.p12
                                          

                                          So I download the new CA cert, and my new user cert and key... Joined them up into a p12 with password "test" and imported just fine into my iphone.

                                          Nice, I am about to test, but unfortunately did the RSA, so will redo if working, but at least things are lighting up a bit! Thanks for all your patience! 👍

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                                            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator @furom
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                                            @furom also - keep in mind unlike browsers there isn't any issue with making this stuff good for long time. I set 10 years on my CA and certs ;)

                                            Got my ssid changed to something a bit better than eaptest, and phone connecting to it without any problems. Now just to create certs and my other trusted devices...

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