Feature changed by: Marius Tomaschewski
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
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 (2008-11-04 09:16:58)
Is this related/duplicate to 305353 or something else?
+ #3: Marius Tomaschewski (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...
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