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Wireless Authentication

  • June 11, 2014
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Hello All -

I'm working with a Steel-Belted Radius server + AD Authentication for wireless. I've setup the following:

  • Created configuration profiles to deploy my certificates. This works. Both import successfully as trusted.
  • Created configuration profile for my wireless 802.1X network:

Hidden Network / Auto Join Security Type: WPA / WPA2 Enterprise Use as a Login Window configuration (does this pass login creds for authentication? Computers are domain joined and users login with domain creds.) Protocols: TTLS Username/Password BLANK (users need to auth with their own creds. I filled mine in and tested to confirm the profile works) Inner Authentication: MSCHAPv2 Outer Identity: $COMPUTERNAME

Problem:

The network doesn't auto join. If I manually select the network I get an error: The Wi-Fi network "my network" could not be joined.

As soon as I fill in the username and password field within the configuration profile the computer(s) auto join without an issue. So I'm assuming that is the missing piece here. How do I get this to automatically pass the current user's credentials? Or worse case... manually input them?

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    • pat_best
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    • June 12, 2014

    In a configuration profile, combine your certificates and 802.1x settings together. This allows you to select your authentication protocols and your certificate trust settings. You are correct that an AD bound Mac with a login windows 802.1x profile will pass the user login credentials into your wireless profile. I am not sure why you see a name and password field when using a login window profile as those should go away once you click that box. What version is your JSS?

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    • ooshnoo
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    • June 12, 2014

    leave the username and password fields blank. you don't need them since the credentials used for logging into the computer are going to be used for authentication.

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    • bobclements
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    • June 12, 2014

    Thank you both for the feedback. I'm still learning the UI =)

    In this case it was just a matter of clicking the Trust toggle and checking the box for my certs as pat suggested. Authentication is now solid!

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    • pat_best
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    • June 12, 2014

    great!! glad you got it going!

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    • rcastorani
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    • September 14, 2015

    @bobclements If you don't mind me asking, is your login window set to list users or show name and password field? I haven't been successful with 802.1x authentication and the user list login window yet. Just curious what your setup is. Thanks.

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