The following is an old article that I wrote that some people were asking me about. Here you go.

Introduction

The goal of this article is to allow you to have your wireless access protected by WPA and have users authenticate to eDirectory for access to the wireless network.

What is WPA?

WPA  is a wireless authentication standard used for controlling access to wireless networks. WPA can operate in a pre-shared key mode(router and client both know a secret password), or authentication can take place with a RADIUS server.

What is RADIUS?

RADIUS  is a standard for controlling remote access to a network. It has been around for many years and has a consistent implementation in a broad range of devices and software. RADIUS servers receive a username and password and simply respond if that user is permitted to access the resource or not. It can lookup the user in many different ways, but in this article we are going to make it use eDirectory.

What is eDirectory?

Novell’s [http://www.novell.com/products/edirectory/  eDirectory

is an amazing directory service to manage all different type of objects. It’s an LDAP server also, which let’s it integrate with almost anything.

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Recently I’ve been playing around with Open Enterprise Server again and I found this old article I wrote about integrating eDirectory with wireless auth.

The goal of this article is to allow you to have your wireless access protected by WPA and have users authenticate to eDirectory for access to the wireless network.

WPA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Access) is a wireless authentication standard used for controlling access to wireless networks. WPA can operate in a pre-shared key mode(router and client both know a secret password), or authentication can take place with a RADIUS server.

Article here