[TriLUG] WIFI EAP-TTLS connection issue

[Jeremy Davis via TriLUG]

Chris,

It was brought to my attention, by a good friend on this list, that it was
a bit harsh to recommend a different distro for a very specific problem and
it smells like distro pushing. He was right and I apologize for throwing my
suggestion out there like that.

I am not affiliated with Mint in any way, however, I do tend to push it
whenever I hear someone is transitioning from Windows. I do this because I
think it is the most user friendly and it lessens the odds of a would be
new Linux user from throwing their hands up and saying "I can't do this"
and resorting back to Windows.

Although I was very determined, I started out with Ubuntu then had to
resort back to Windows. It was a year or two later before I could finally
escape Windows and Mint made the transition quite painless with very few
problems. I have given non tech family members Mint and Ubuntu. They were
confused by Ubuntu/Unity but happy for years with Mint and the Cinnamon
desktop. I consider Mint to be the gateway distro. The drawback is it
probably has the highest number of proprietary things running under the
hood among all the distros.

Anyhoo, this all happened before I found TriLUG. With TriLUG as a resource,
you will very likely be successful with any distro or any Linux related
endeavor.

My apologies and good luck to you and your wife.

Jeremy Davis
On Sep 4, 2015 10:39 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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