[TriLUG] WIFI EAP-TTLS connection issue

C TC via TriLUG trilug at trilug.org
Fri Sep 4 11:28:28 EDT 2015


I believe some of the Ubuntu users at my old job had to use the method
below (found on askubuntu).
I've emailed one of the guys .. will post reply if he answers.
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*The warning was happening again and again. What I ended up doing was first
I did this I clicked the "Choose a Certificate Authority certificate..." *

*Then I went to
"/usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/AddTrust_External_Root.crt" and Added
that as my certificate.*

*The certificate error went away but the password prompt for the WiFi did
not *

*So I went to "Edit Connections" and selected my wireless connection.*

*Then I went to "General" tab and unticked "All users may connect to this
network" *

*No more CA prompt or wireless password prompt. *


On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Chris Bickhaus via TriLUG <
trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> So my grand plan to move my wife to Linux is hanging in the balance right
> now, and, as a relative newbie, I could use some help.  Given the privacy
> issues, etc. with Windows 10, my wife was more than willing to try Ubuntu
> over Windows 10.  I was able to get Citrix, etc. running for her work, and
> I thought the laptop was ready to go.  Then she takes it to work, tries to
> connect to the wifi and can't.  The wifi network is using EAP-TTLS for
> authentication without a certificate.  When trying to connect, my wife is
> greeted with a message telling her that no certificate authority
> certificate has been chosen.  If she clicks ignore, the prompt disappears,
> but she is not able to connect.  She has confirmed with IT that they are
> not using a certificate, but that is as far as she got.  She was told that
> Linux is a highly customizable OS and, as a result, they offer no support
> for it.
>
> My wife is running Ubuntu 14.04.3 with the 3.19 kernel.  The
> /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections file for the SSID is as follows:
>
> [ipv6]
> method=auto
>
> [connection]
> id=(redacted)
> uuid=(redacted)
> type=802-11-wireless
>
> [802-11-wireless-security]
> key-mgmt=wpa-eap
> auth-alg=open
>
> [802-11-wireless]
> ssid=clubs
> mode=infrastructure
> mac-address=(redacted)
> security=802-11-wireless-security
>
> [802-1x]
> eap=ttls;
> identity=(redacted)
> phase2-auth=chap
> password-flags=1
>
> [ipv4]
> method=auto
>
> Has anyone run into a similar issue and been able to work it out?  I found
> a few somewhat relevant threads on askubuntu, etc. that talked about
> eliminating the line system-ca-cert=true, but that line is not present in
> the file (supposedly a bug surrounding this very issue has been fixed for
> 14.04).  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
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