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Bug 1992836 - [RFE] WPA/WPA2 Enterprise EAP-TLS 802.1x authentication with support for using smartcard certificates directly from a card in Gnome Control Center
Summary: [RFE] WPA/WPA2 Enterprise EAP-TLS 802.1x authentication with support for usin...
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED MIGRATED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: gnome-control-center
Version: 8.4
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: beta
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Assignee: Felipe Borges
QA Contact: Desktop QE
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 2017777
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-08-11 19:23 UTC by Mike Ralph
Modified: 2023-09-15 19:15 UTC (History)
13 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Enhancement
Doc Text:
Feature: WPA/WPA2 Enterprise EAP-TLS 802.1x authentication with support for using smartcard certificates directly from a card in Gnome Control Center Reason: Customers need a consistent experience across our tools. nm-connection-editor allows the use of smart cards to host certificates used in the authentication of wired/wireless connections to the network when using EAP-TLS. With the increasing use of smart card certificates due to security concerns, our customers are looking to use them these items more in our environment. The use of smart cards increase the security of network connections as the certificates can be separate from the system when it is not in use. Result:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2023-09-15 19:14:47 UTC
Type: Story
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
pm-rhel: mirror+

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Red Hat Issue Tracker NMT-78 0 None None None 2023-01-22 14:12:30 UTC
Red Hat Issue Tracker   RHEL-4190 0 None Migrated None 2023-09-15 19:14:41 UTC
Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-93291 0 None None None 2021-08-11 19:47:10 UTC

Description Mike Ralph 2021-08-11 19:23:42 UTC 
Description of problem:
  Gnome Control Center only allows for certificates to be used if they are on a file system and not a smart card.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
  RHEL 7&8


Actual results:
  You can only select certificates on a file system.


Expected results:
  Read the certificates off of the smart card.


Business Impact:
  Customers need a consistent experience across our tools. nm-connection-editor allows the use of smart cards to host certificates used in the authentication of wired/wireless connections to the network when using EAP-TLS.
  With the increasing use of smart card certificates due to security concerns, our customers are looking to use them these items more in our environment. The use of smart cards increase the security of network connections as the certificates can be separate from the system when it is not in use.
Comment 9 Lubomir Rintel 2021-10-18 08:13:40 UTC 
libnma contains a widget that makes this possible.

I'd be happy to prepare a patch for the control center that will make things work, but it would still be necessary for control center maintainers to review it and check whether the UX doesn't suck.
Comment 18 Lubomir Rintel 2022-08-03 16:00:39 UTC 
Work in progress: https://gitlab.gnome.org/lkundrak/gnome-control-center/-/tree/lr/libnma-ws
Comment 19 Lubomir Rintel 2023-02-13 12:17:39 UTC 
commit 6c266471545b05a11139eb1a1c36ce655f674bb9
Author: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak>
Date:   Wed Aug 3 16:51:52 2022 +0200

    network: replace wireless-security with libnma's NMAWs

G-C-C gained support for using picking the certificates from the smart cards is possible since the above upstream commit (to be shipped with GNOME 44 / Fedora 38).

I'm reassigning to G-C-C maintainers, because they're likely in a better position to decide what is to be done here next.

If help backporting the patch (it's fairly big) is needed, please let me know.

Thanks!
Comment 21 RHEL Program Management 2023-09-15 19:13:54 UTC 
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