Feature changed by: Sebastian Rösgen (palimpseste) Feature #305356, revision 8 Title: 802.1x authentication on wired network using YaST via wpa_supplicant openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Marius Tomaschewski (mtomaschewski) + Interested: Sebastian Rösgen (palimpseste) Interested: Stefan Behlert (sbehlert) 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. Relations: - 802.1x authentication on wired network using YaST via wpa_supplicant (novell/bugzilla/id: 438133) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438133 Discussion: #2: Holger Dyroff (escubar) (2008-11-04 09:16:58) Is this related/duplicate to 305353 or something else? #3: Marius Tomaschewski (mtomaschewski) (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