Does NetworkManager Work with WPA in Fedora 8?

Rick Bilonick rab at nauticom.net
Thu Jan 17 14:27:24 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 08:23 +0000, Mike wrote:
> Rick Bilonick <rab <at> nauticom.net> writes:
> 
> > #        subject_match="/C=GB/L=York/O=University of York/OU=Computing
> > Service/OU=Terms of use at www.verisign.co.uk/rpa (c)05/OU=Authenticated
> > by VeriSign/OU=Member, VeriSign Trust Network/CN=nasaaa1.york.ac.uk"
> >         phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
> > #        priority=5
> > }
> > 
> > I have no idea what the function of the "subject_match" line is but I've
> > commented it out and I'm able to connect (after doing an "Activate" in
> > the network gui tool).
> 
> The subject match line verifies the certificate is from the authority it is 
> supposed to come from - so that line would need to be changed to that
> for your organisation's server - commenting it out will certainly be fine
> with a "slightly" less secure connection in that it is possible though
> unlikely someone could forge a certificate and you then connect to an AP
> that is not verified. 
> 
> I will leave others to answer the other parts of the post - but I do 
> remember that NM has problems with wired connections - I never use it 
> myself.
> 

NetworkManager didn't use to have problems with wired connections. Under
Fedora 6, it would connect to the wired network with a static ip when at
the office and connect to the wireless network when at home -
automatically without any intervention. Now I have to turn the applet
off - otherwise it connects to the wired network using DHCP (it connects
but I don't have the access I need when I'm connected via my static ip).

Where do you find the info for the subject_match line?

Rick B.




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