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WiFi based AD authentication

  • January 4, 2023
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MacJunior
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We need to authenticate our Mac on WiFi using PEAP ( username & password ) and we have AD on-premise, is there way to accomplish that without binding our Macs to AD ( please say yes ) ??

 

 

Best answer by peitang

use RADIUS server

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  • January 5, 2023

use RADIUS server


talkingmoose
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  • January 5, 2023

Technically, binding isn’t required to authenticate Macs to Active Directory.

However, many network administrators use Active Directory (AD) as a “source of truth”. Computers and their MAC addresses are part of the computer record created when binding. As part of additional security, the network administrators configure the Wi-Fi systems to refer to the AD computer record to confirm the computer attempting to connect is owned by the organization.

The need here for binding is being imposed by your network admin.