NEW Package: freeRADIUS 2.x

Nachtfalke

Updates pkg v1.4.3

changed: service name and description (Services)
fixed: EAP-PEAP - there were problems when starting "soh" server. (eap)
Added: ability to change if MS Statement of Health should be enabled in EAP-PEAP or not. (eap)

@gettons
I tried with an Windows XP Client and an D-Link DIR-300 with DD-WRT firmware. Enabled WPA2 Enterprise on AP, added the AP-IP as NAS/Client on freeRADIUS server with same "shared secret".
Added a user "test" with password "test".

I had to import the "ca.der" from freeradius on the Windows XP Client and import it there and choose it in the network connections. This is how it is described here (german how-to) with many pictures:
http://www.administrator.de/index.php?content=142241

For my Windows XP Client the authentication is working with PEAP and MSCHAPv2.
The first time I connect I have to enter my user credentials (a windows window pops up where I enter username and password) - then I got connected. I got output in syslog if it works or not.

When I connect the second time then I do NOT need to enter username and password again.

Hope this will solve your problem. Feedback appreciated :-)

Nachtfalke

@gettons

I did some more tests and there are two possibilities.
If you disable "Check Server certificates" (see attachment) than you can connect just with the username. Then you do not need to import anything fromm freeradius server on the client.

The other possibility is that you ENABLE "Check Server Certificates" (see other attachment) and then you will be promted to accept the CA or not. If you accept then this cert will be added to your cert store. In Windows XP you can check this from here:

Start -> run -> certmgr.msc
There you find - I think it is the second from top (in german: "Stammzertifizierungsstelle"). There you should find the CA you accepted.

PEAP.JPG_thumb
![PEAP check cert.JPG](/public/imported_attachments/1/PEAP check cert.JPG)
![PEAP check cert.JPG_thumb](/public/imported_attachments/1/PEAP check cert.JPG_thumb)

gettons

thank you very much Nachtfalke.
I will try these settings later as I am not home now.

But just to clarify: my problem was with ubuntu and android, I have not tested with win 7 yet. But I will surely do.

Thanks again, will get back to you asap

Nachtfalke

@gettons:

thank you very much Nachtfalke.
I will try these settings later as I am not home now.

But just to clarify: my problem was with ubuntu and android, I have not tested with win 7 yet. But I will surely do.

Thanks again, will get back to you asap

Hi,

I think this was not OS dependent but I got some problems with the old pkg v1.4.2, too. I tried with Windows XP and WLAN because this is the only equipment I can use at the moment (I am on vacation).

Not sure why, but my patch was merged some hours ago but there is still the old pkg version available. So you will have enough time :D

gettons

@Nachtfalke:

@gettons
Not sure if this is an problem of freeradius or a configuration "problem" of your AP or freeradius-EAP setup.
The package offers the default settings which are in the eap.conf file. I am unsure what you have to change as I need to read the docs and wikis on freeradius first.

You could try with "copy reply to tunnel".

You further did not post the output of what "radiusd -X" is showing. radius.log and system.log do not offer all "errors".

@Nachfalke
This is the output of radiusd -X once I try to connect with my android mobile phone.
Again, it might be useful for you to know. With the previous version of your package it used to work fine. What I did was just to uninstall the package and install it again. I also rebooted in between just to be double sure.

The log is http://pastebin.com/XAsPjDSD It;s quite long and I didn't want to mess the thread

Nachtfalke

@gettons:

@Nachtfalke:

@gettons
Not sure if this is an problem of freeradius or a configuration "problem" of your AP or freeradius-EAP setup.
The package offers the default settings which are in the eap.conf file. I am unsure what you have to change as I need to read the docs and wikis on freeradius first.

You could try with "copy reply to tunnel".

You further did not post the output of what "radiusd -X" is showing. radius.log and system.log do not offer all "errors".

@Nachfalke
This is the output of radiusd -X once I try to connect with my android mobile phone.
Again, it might be useful for you to know. With the previous version of your package it used to work fine. What I did was just to uninstall the package and install it again. I also rebooted in between just to be double sure.

The log is http://pastebin.com/XAsPjDSD It;s quite long and I didn't want to mess the thread

Hi,
the reason why I asked you between which version the error comes up was to find out what I changed and what could cause the problem.
I think I could reproduce your problem with my hardware and it is pointing to the "soh" server.

Lines ~470

[peap] server soh {
No such virtual server "soh"
Invalid user: [gettons/<no user-password="" attribute="">] (from client wifi-ap port 0 via TLS tunnel)
[peap] } # server soh
[peap] Got SoH reply
[peap] SoH was rejected
[peap] FAILURE</no>

You could try the following until the pfsense server offers the new version:

SSH to your pfsense
Kill radiusd service
edit /usr/local/etc/raddb/eap.conf
scroll down where you find these two lines:


soh = yes
soh_virtual_server = "soh-server"

Delete these lines, save the file and restart freeradius FROM CONSOLE

/usr/local/sbin/etc/rc.d/radiusd onestart

Then it should work.

gettons

It does work like a charm now!
Thanks.

So, is this small modification something you will be including in the next freeradius package or not ? Or something which has to stay there for other purposes?

Nachtfalke

@gettons:

It does work like a charm now!
Thanks.

So, is this small modification something you will be including in the next freeradius package or not ? Or something which has to stay there for other purposes?

As you could read in my last pkg Updates post here on the forum ;o)
I have included that. You now can choose if you want to enable or disable the SoH server and - thats the main part - I correctet the servername from "soh" which was wrong to "soh-server" which is correct.

So it shpuld work with and without but in future you will have the decision ;-)

gettons

This is great stuff!

Nachtfalke

Updates pkg v1.4.3:

Added: GUI to configure FreeRADIUS2 with LDAP. This will only work if we can use the new binaries.
Updated: FreeRADIUS 2.x package documentation on http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/FreeRADIUS_2.x_package

gettons

Nice one!
One more question for you if you don't mind: are the settings for freeradius2 package kept in xml files within the OS?
cause I noticed if you reinstall the package after you removed it does keep old settings. Is there a quick way to purge the config?

Nachtfalke

@gettons:

Nice one!
One more question for you if you don't mind: are the settings for freeradius2 package kept in xml files within the OS?
cause I noticed if you reinstall the package after you removed it does keep old settings. Is there a quick way to purge the config?

Yes, all settings, users, clients are saved in the config. The only thing which is NOT stored there are the CA and certs which you created with the freeradius cert-manager. If you use the pfsense cert-manager then these are saved in the config, too.

To cleanup the config from old freeradius entries there are two ways:
1.) Diagnostics -> Backup/Restore -> Backup the config.xml and then delete the freeradius2 entries and restore the config. A reboot is needed.
2.) SSH to your pfsense and edit /config/config.xml and delete the freeradius2 entries. A reboot is needed.

gettons

@Nachtfalke:

@gettons:

@Nachtfalke:

@gettons
Not sure if this is an problem of freeradius or a configuration "problem" of your AP or freeradius-EAP setup.
The package offers the default settings which are in the eap.conf file. I am unsure what you have to change as I need to read the docs and wikis on freeradius first.

You could try with "copy reply to tunnel".

You further did not post the output of what "radiusd -X" is showing. radius.log and system.log do not offer all "errors".

@Nachfalke
This is the output of radiusd -X once I try to connect with my android mobile phone.
Again, it might be useful for you to know. With the previous version of your package it used to work fine. What I did was just to uninstall the package and install it again. I also rebooted in between just to be double sure.

The log is http://pastebin.com/XAsPjDSD It;s quite long and I didn't want to mess the thread

Hi,
the reason why I asked you between which version the error comes up was to find out what I changed and what could cause the problem.
I think I could reproduce your problem with my hardware and it is pointing to the "soh" server.

Lines ~470
[peap] server soh {
No such virtual server "soh"
Invalid user: [gettons/<no user-password="" attribute="">] (from client wifi-ap port 0 via TLS tunnel)
[peap] } # server soh
[peap] Got SoH reply
[peap] SoH was rejected
[peap] FAILURE</no>
You could try the following until the pfsense server offers the new version:

SSH to your pfsense

Kill radiusd service

edit /usr/local/etc/raddb/eap.conf

scroll down where you find these two lines:
soh = yes
soh_virtual_server = "soh-server"
Delete these lines, save the file and restart freeradius FROM CONSOLE
/usr/local/sbin/etc/rc.d/radiusd onestart
Then it should work.

Although It worked, after a reboot the changes I made in /usr/local/etc/raddb/eap.conf get reverted.

Nachtfalke

That is the behaviour of files which are configured by GUI. They will be overwritten in many situations.
You have to wait until the freeradius pkg 1.4.3 or higher is available. There is nothing I can do now - you could ask the pfsense developers why the repo isn't syncing.

Nachtfalke

Updates pkg v1.4.4:

Added: LDAP GUI -> We need to wait until we can use the freeradius2 package compiled with the missing dependencies and modules (rlm_ldap) but the GUI is working

Updates pkg v1.4.5:

Added: Ability to do use first 802.1X auth and if this fails check the Access-Request against a plain mac auth file (authorized_macs). This will help us if we use a NAS which does not support converting the mac address into a "username/password"-802.1X like Access-Request.
Added: Plain MAC Auth entries could now be synced with XMLRPC
TO-DO: Check/Test how we could place check and reply-items the beste way in authorized_macs.
Updated: Documentation on docs.pfsense.org

zlyzwy

Hi,

Very useful package!!! Thanks a lot!
My question is:

Does this package support Mysql now? Actually I can see the option in the PF Menu but it seems not working.
I would like to create a Hotspot by using this package + Captive Portal + MySQL + DDWRT Router. (eg:http://www.wiwiz.com/)
It would be great appreciated if there is any references for setting these matters？

Sorry for the poor English.
Thanks again for any reply！

Nachtfalke

@zlyzwy:

Hi,

Very useful package!!! Thanks a lot!
My question is:

Does this package support Mysql now? Actually I can see the option in the PF Menu but it seems not working.

I would like to create a Hotspot by using this package + Captive Portal + MySQL + DDWRT Router. (eg:http://www.wiwiz.com/)
It would be great appreciated if there is any references for setting these matters？

Sorry for the poor English.
Thanks again for any reply！

Hi,

LDAP and SQL isn't supported at the moment. The GUI is ready but we first have to compile freeradius with MySQL, PostgreSQL and LDAP support. This takes some time but it will be supported in the - hopefully - near future.
I didn't use that but as far as I know the CaptivePortal in pfsense supports connecting to a RADIUS. An if this package has MySQL support this should be possible for you to realize.

zlyzwy

@Nachtfalke:

@zlyzwy:

Hi,

Very useful package!!! Thanks a lot!
My question is:

Does this package support Mysql now? Actually I can see the option in the PF Menu but it seems not working.

I would like to create a Hotspot by using this package + Captive Portal + MySQL + DDWRT Router. (eg:http://www.wiwiz.com/)
It would be great appreciated if there is any references for setting these matters？

Sorry for the poor English.
Thanks again for any reply！

Hi,

LDAP and SQL isn't supported at the moment. The GUI is ready but we first have to compile freeradius with MySQL, PostgreSQL and LDAP support. This takes some time but it will be supported in the - hopefully - near future.

I didn't use that but as far as I know the CaptivePortal in pfsense supports connecting to a RADIUS. An if this package has MySQL support this should be possible for you to realize.

Thanks for the quick reply！

Looking forward to the update version:)

marcelloc

zlyzwy,

If you know how to handle with packages at console and want to help on testing these new features, follow Nachtfalke posts on how to update to test version

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,43675.msg232220.html#msg232220

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,43675.msg232312.html#msg232312

Nachtfalke

Updates pkg v1.4.6:

Fixed: When Plain MAC Auth is enabled we are now able to not only check against EAP-X but against all other modules. The MAC check is now before all other checks and if it fails it proceeds with the rest.