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This article describe HSBXL RADIUS server setup.

We will be using FreeRADIUS 3.0.

Wanted features

• RADIUS authentication on switches
• 802.1x authentication on access points
• Roaming (SpaceFED/EduRoam)
• LDAP user backend
• Dynamic VLAN assignment on WiFi
• RADIUS authentication on wiki (later)

LDAP setup

We need a back-end that contains a list of users with their passwords. You can choose to use the file /etc/freeradius/3.0/users instead of a full LDAP installation for small configurations (1-3 users), but you will feel the administrative pain very quickly. Do yourself a favour and save yourself from unneeded pain: use LDAP.

Since our LDAP server does not allow to be queried as anonymous, the FreeRADIUS server will need credentials to connect to the LDAP server and do some queries

Generate a password for the FreeRADIUS user

 # pwgen 30 1
 baigah2cai6chaa5Osh1en3Ahde4Je
 # /usr/sbin/slappasswd -s baigah2cai6chaa5Osh1en3Ahde4Je
 {SSHA}l0uiXg0djOmSAf3SIcN44f7muWrLPpOt

Create a LDAP user for FreeRADIUS

dn: uid=FreeRADIUS,ou=services,dc=hsbxl,dc=be
objectclass: account
objectclass: simpleSecurityObject
objectclass: top
uid: FreeRADIUS
userpassword: {SSHA}l0uiXg0djOmSAf3SIcN44f7muWrLPpOt

Configure FreeRADIUS to use LDAP

File /etc/freeradius/3.0/mods-enabled/ldap

ldap {
    ...
	identity = 'uid=FreeRADIUS,ou=services,dc=hsbxl,dc=be'
	password = baigah2cai6chaa5Osh1en3Ahde4Je
	base_dn = 'dc=hsbxl,dc=be'
    ...
	group {
	    ...
	    filter = '(objectClass=groupOfNames)'
	    ...
	    membership_filter = "(|(member=%{control:Ldap-UserDn})(memberUid=%{%{Stripped-User-Name}:-%{User-Name}}))"
	    ...
	}
    ...
}

Test the setup

Once you got LDAP configured, you need to test if it is working correctly

If the test above succeeds, we can go to the next step below:

Clients

The clients are the devices that will contact the RADIUS server for authentication. Clients can be any of the following:

• a switch
• a firewall
• an access point
• an application (web applications included)
• another RADIUS server acting as a proxy (think spaceFED)

Setting up the first client

Advanced configurations

Cisco switch

Juniper switch/firewall

Unifi access points