GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 340595
NetworkManager: Add support for EAP-FAST
Last modified: 2012-05-18 10:35:02 UTC
I saw a brief conversation on the mailing list about EAP-FAST support. I'm inputting a bug so it can be tracked. I'd really love to be able to use NetworkManager to connect to the network at work. I can provide working example configs if needed.
Adding a link to the list conversation. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2006-March/msg00224.html I'm not so worried about getting the patched ssl ect for this to work. I can take care of that myself until the distro catches up. I would love the config options in NM so I can use it instead of wpa_supplicant directly.
I'd rather wait until the OpenSSL patch is accepted upstream. The problem is there's no way that NM can know that your OpenSSL is patched to support EAP-FAST, so adding the option would add it for _everyone_, regardless of whether or not their OpenSSL had EAP-FAST support or not. Then, when you go and try to connect, the connection would always fail because the supplicant isn't able to make the connection. Upstream hasn't commented on the patch for 2.5 years, I think we need to push upstream OpenSSL to get some answers and get the patch merged.
Upstream has finally applied the patch, so EAP-FAST is now possible. It's not going to hit 0.7 though since that's way too close to release. We'll need to add a method to the D-Bus wpa_supplicant API to retrieve available EAP methods to see if EAP-FAST is supported by the supplicant though.
EAP-FAST has been implemented. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=209339 for more information.