Configuring Novell eDirectory™ for 802.11 Wireless Authentication

Timothy Harris

Product Line Manager

Novell, Inc

Agenda

eDirectory and FreeRADIUS

Demonstration

History of Wireless Authentication and eDirectory

History

History

Wireless Authentication Protocols leverage RADIUS

Clients encrypt passwords using one way hashes

Servers must be able to read a user's password to compare hashes

Novell eDirectory (before Universal Password) could not read a user password

eDirectory and FreeRADIUS

FreeRADIUS Integration

Novell created Universal Password to support IDM

IDM accesses Universal Password via LDAPv3 extensions

Novell Published the APIs and contributed the client libraries for the open source community to leverage Universal Password

Novell wrote patches for FreeRADIUS and contributed them to the project

Novell developed iManager plugins for managing RADIUS principals and profiles via eDirectory

FreeRADIUS Integration

Access freeradius from the project called “eDirectory integration with FreeRADIUS” on the Novell Forge website.

http://forge.novell.com

Join the FreeRADIUS users listserver

http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html

Supported via Novell Technical Support

Demonstration

TUT145 - Configuring Novell eDirectory for Wireless Authentication

2003-12-08T12:43:39