Bug 209339

Summary: Missing support for EAP-FAST
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Russell Harrison <fedora>
Component: NetworkManagerAssignee: Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 6.0CC: cmarcant, daly, danw, james.brown, jason.redhat.20030417, jklimes, jrb, mvadkert, notting, riek, rprice, tao, tpelka
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: FutureFeature, Reopened, Triaged
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OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 2012-06-20 13:41:45 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 428181    
Bug Blocks: 296411, 391501, 391521, 607248, 634813, 699280, 727267, 729766, 747123, 756082    

Description Russell Harrison 2006-10-04 18:30:19 UTC
Description of problem:
NetworkManager needs support for EAP-FAST

EAP-FAST is a replacement for the LEAP authentication protocol due to the
security issues with LEAP.  wpa supplicant currently supports EAP-FAST with some
patches to openssl, but NetworkManager doesn't have the configuration dialogs in
place to connect to networks using EAP-FAST.

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-cam-winget-eap-fast-03.txt

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-cam-winget-eap-fast-potp-provisioning-00.txt

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-cam-winget-eap-fast-provisioning-02.txt

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2006-12-19 18:40:39 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2007-03-21 23:52:30 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 8 Dan Williams 2007-11-05 15:39:34 UTC
I believe we can do this for 5.2

Comment 11 Jay Turner 2007-11-22 11:46:12 UTC
QE ack for RHEL5.2.  Sounds like we have the hardware in-house and just need to
sort out configuration.

Comment 13 Dan Williams 2008-01-09 20:22:17 UTC
We're going to need OpenSSL changes for EAP-FAST as well since openssl doesn't
fully support RFC 4851...

Comment 17 Dan Williams 2008-02-12 14:06:00 UTC
*** Bug 190640 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 18 Ryan Daly 2008-06-06 19:26:42 UTC
I am in the same boat with EAP-FAST support.  I was able to get NM to connect to
this EAP-FAST wireless network once, but nothing since then.

I am able to connect to the above network with wpa_supplicant.  Below is the
configuration:

network={
        ssid="wlan"
        proto=RSN
        key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
        pairwise=CCMP
        eap=LEAP
        identity="daly"
        password="password"
        ca_cert=""
        mode=0
        disabled=0
}

This configuration was generated through wpa_gui.

I see from the above that RHEL 5.2 was to have support for this type of network.
 I'm currently 5.2 but am still having issues.

Comment 23 RHEL Program Management 2008-07-16 16:08:19 UTC
Development Management has reviewed and declined this request.  You may appeal
this decision by reopening this request. 

Comment 24 Dan Williams 2008-07-16 16:14:33 UTC
Ugh, shouldn't have been automatically closed WONTFIX, sorry.  Still a valid
bug; just postponed a bit.

Comment 27 Bill Nottingham 2008-10-09 20:28:46 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 428181 ***

Comment 31 Jason Roysdon 2008-12-08 21:18:46 UTC
Support is missing in F9 and F10 as well for EAP-FAST.

Comment 32 Dan Williams 2008-12-09 17:26:32 UTC
(In reply to comment #31)
> Support is missing in F9 and F10 as well for EAP-FAST.

Yeah, but it's not gonna show up in F9 or F10 unless openssl gets updated there too.

Comment 33 Dan Williams 2009-09-11 18:52:16 UTC
openssl now has EAP-FAST support

Comment 35 Jason Roysdon 2009-09-12 04:44:40 UTC
NM still doesn't list EAP-FAST as an option in F11.  I don't have a production EAP-FAST system available, but I'm pretty sure until that option is there, NM is still dead when it comes to EAP-FAST.

Comment 37 Miroslav Vadkerti 2010-06-25 12:16:36 UTC
openssl now supports EAP-FAST, please update NM to support it also

Comment 42 Chris Marcantonio 2011-10-21 15:49:27 UTC
I see this BZ is filed against RHEL6, but I also see previous bugs closed as dupes of this that were filed against Fedora, so I'm not sure if this is the most appropriate place to ask about the status of this in F16 as well.  Can anyone provide any insight into EAP-FAST support in F16?

This BZ looks like it is tentatively flagged for RHEL 6.3, but that doesn't help too much with understanding the when this may land in Fedora.

Comment 49 Dan Williams 2012-01-27 20:34:39 UTC
Upstream commits to 0.8.x branch that we need to backport for this:

NM
91a58738622c30130a2f6dfa68da3a971a596534
8679f350e901282c22c7b0da5841588f4d3306e5
81a668ba3106913e2bb233217cca89965276fd3d

editor
0285856d58e5eff391bcf324b63d7985fd4c77a2

Comment 50 Jirka Klimes 2012-01-30 17:21:47 UTC
And this commit from 0.8.x branch too:
dd562a3dc4eeb7ee64a1835bbf146985a9c91957

Comment 51 Jirka Klimes 2012-02-23 20:20:10 UTC
And also these commits from 0.8.x branch:
fec7fc4e01b113651ebb5486d9100245bd78f374
977e0db633d17dcb6e9324704d275d5475981cb8
ef9ef7133f0cccadd0ccd2cf57d9bea8aeebbd41

Comment 57 errata-xmlrpc 2012-06-20 13:41:45 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0832.html