#586858 network-manager: Should auto-detect EAP authentication type

Package:
network-manager
Source:
network-manager
Description:
network management framework (daemon and userspace tools)
Submitter:
Josh Triplett
Date:
2021-05-20 17:21:07 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
Tags:
#586858#3
Date:
2010-06-22 23:40:37 UTC
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In talking with someone who uses wpa-supplicant directly to connect to a
WPA-EAP-protected network, they asked why NetworkManager needs to ask
for the EAP authentication type (TTLS, PEAP, etc), and why it needs to
ask for the inner authentication type.  Apparently, wpa-supplicant can
autodetect all of those from an EAP configuration packet.  It certainly
would make connecting to WPA networks easier if NetworkManager could
autodetect this as well (or let wpa-supplicant do so).

- Josh Triplett
#586858#8
Date:
2010-07-21 15:51:48 UTC
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forwarded 586858 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624939
thanks

I've forwarded this issue to the upstream bug tracker

Michael
#586858#17
Date:
2017-12-12 14:52:18 UTC
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Control: tags -1 moreinfo

This bug report was closed upstream as obsolete.

Can you still reproduce the issue with a recent version?
#586858#24
Date:
2017-12-12 19:31:53 UTC
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Yes, this is still relevant. NetworkManager still requires manually
selecting the EAP type, rather than autodetecting it. I don't know why
this would have been closed as obsolete.

- Josh Triplett
#586858#29
Date:
2017-12-12 20:50:55 UTC
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Hi Josh

Am 12.12.2017 um 20:31 schrieb Josh Triplett:

Thanks for reporting back and confirming this is still an issue.
As I don't have an environment to test EAP setups myself, would you mind
following up at the upstream bug report yourself?
This is probably more productive then me playing a bug proxy.

Regards,
Michael