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Feature changed by: Marius Tomaschewski <mt@novell.com> Feature #305356, revision 5 Title: 802.1x authentication on wired network using YaST via wpa_supplicant openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Marius Tomaschewski <mt@novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Some networks using 802.1x authentication on metallic Ethernet and I think it would be cool have a possibility, handle this connection type using YaST. The major problem to support this is that the wpa_supplicant is in /usr/sbin; it seems also to be difficult to move it to /sbin because of all the libs the wpa_supplicant is using. What would be required, is to extent the "supported_on_localfs" function to check this and start the interface in remotefs flow when 802.1x is enabled. That is, using remotefs on 802.1x authenticated interfaces would be not possible -- same as with NetworkManager. Discussion: #2: Holger Dyroff <hd@novell.com> (2008-11-04 09:16:58) Is this related/duplicate to 305353 or something else? + #3: Marius Tomaschewski <mt@novell.com> (2008-12-04 13:02:35) (reply to + #2) + Yes, it is related. This feature requests to add support of 802.1x + authentication (in the for the "traditional" network setup method alias + ifup alias netcontrol). + Feature 305353 requests the autodetection of 802.1x and can be + considered as extension of this feature. + Autodetection in "traditional" method is not possible at the moment, + because the tools (wpa_supplicant) and libraries (ssl at least) + required for 802.1x are installed bellow of /usr and enabling it would + break /usr on nfs and smb. + Moving them (ssl, krb5 & co) to /lib and wpa_supplicant to /sbin would + IMO make sense anyway, since they're required in many cases - also for + NFSv4 with GSSAPI... -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305356