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ā10-23-2020 09:56 PM
Hello community,
has anybody found a way to use a modern wireless controller like XCA or XCC with a client auth based on certifcates without using an NPS (we have dozens of ipad“s)
I want to find a way where i can create a machine certificate on a system and then join an SSID without username and passwort but only check this certifcate.
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ā11-02-2020 08:39 PM
Hi Christian,
You can setup computer/machine cert based authentication by following these steps. You would also need to take care of the certificate distribution to your iOS and non-windows devices, that canāt be done with EAC.
1- Point your XCC to the EAC as radius server using the AAA configuration the XCC. Make sure NOT to use local onboarding option in WLAN settings.
2- On the EAC, you need two types of certificates i.e.
- Root CA of the domain that is issuing/signing the certs for your client devices.
- Radius cert issued by the same domain.
3- Load the CA cert on the āUpdate Trusted Authoritiesā under AAA settings in EAC.
4- Update the Radius cert on the EAC as follows:
5- Setup LDAP on EAC to authenticate your machines/computers, make sure you set it up with AD machine default values as per following:
6- Configure AAA rule as per below and make sure you have correct match pattern for host and LDAP settings selected, usually it is host/* or *@* depending on how your directory service is setup.
7- Finally, create an appropriate rule to address the cert based authentication, you either set it to a more generic auth type 802.1x or be more specific and set it to 802.1x EAP-TLS.
8- And most importantly, donāt forget to press the magic āEnforceā button to ensure settings are pushed to EAC.
Let us know how it goes.
Regards,
Ovais
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ā10-24-2020 08:59 AM
Christian,
There are 3 authentication mechanisms in XCC:
- Local (username/password)
- Radius (all the radius supported auth types)
- LDAP (mainly used to validate user or computers on MSAD. with username/password)
If you donāt use local (usrername/password) authentication, you need an external Radius server to perform the authentication.
You can use NPS or another.
The advantage of the Extreme Access Control is the integration with the XCC.
To perform TLS Auth the Radius has to have the Root certificate of the CA used to generate the Client certificate.
With this Root certificate he can validate the Client certificate and give a positive answer to the XCC.
Regards
Mig
