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6. Testbed

6.1. Testcase

figure testbed: A wireless node request authentication.

Our testbed consists of two nodes and one Access Point (AP). One node functions as the Supplicant (WN), the other as the back-end Authentication Server running RADIUS (AS). The Access Point is the Authenticator. See figure testbed for explanation.

Important

It is crucial that the Access Point be able to reach (ping) the Authentication Server, and vice versa! [Debug OpenID Connect]

6.2. Running some tests

Running some tests

  1. The RADIUS server is started in debug mode. This produces a lot of debug information. The important snippets are below:

      # radiusd -X
      Starting - reading configuration files ...
      reread_config:  reading radiusd.conf
      Config:   including file: /usr/local/etc/raddb/proxy.conf
      Config:   including file: /usr/local/etc/raddb/clients.conf
      Config:   including file: /usr/local/etc/raddb/snmp.conf
      Config:   including file: /usr/local/etc/raddb/eap.conf
      Config:   including file: /usr/local/etc/raddb/sql.conf
      ......
      Module: Loaded MS-CHAP 
       mschap: use_mppe = yes
       mschap: require_encryption = no
       mschap: require_strong = no
       mschap: with_ntdomain_hack = no
       mschap: passwd = "(null)"
       mschap: authtype = "MS-CHAP"
       mschap: ntlm_auth = "(null)"
      Module: Instantiated mschap (mschap)
      ......
      Module: Loaded eap 
       eap: default_eap_type = "peap" (1)
       eap: timer_expire = 60
       eap: ignore_unknown_eap_types = no
       eap: cisco_accounting_username_bug = no
      rlm_eap: Loaded and initialized type md5
       tls: rsa_key_exchange = no (2)
       tls: dh_key_exchange = yes
       tls: rsa_key_length = 512
       tls: dh_key_length = 512
       tls: verify_depth = 0
       tls: CA_path = "(null)"
       tls: pem_file_type = yes
       tls: private_key_file = "/usr/local/etc/raddb/certs/cert-srv.pem"
       tls: certificate_file = "/usr/local/etc/raddb/certs/cert-srv.pem"
       tls: CA_file = "/usr/local/etc/raddb/certs/demoCA/cacert.pem"
       tls: private_key_password = "SecretKeyPass77"
       tls: dh_file = "/usr/local/etc/raddb/certs/dh"
       tls: random_file = "/usr/local/etc/raddb/certs/random"
       tls: fragment_size = 1024
       tls: include_length = yes
       tls: check_crl = no
       tls: check_cert_cn = "(null)"
      rlm_eap: Loaded and initialized type tls
       peap: default_eap_type = "mschapv2" (3)
       peap: copy_request_to_tunnel = no
       peap: use_tunneled_reply = no
       peap: proxy_tunneled_request_as_eap = yes
      rlm_eap: Loaded and initialized type peap
       mschapv2: with_ntdomain_hack = no
      rlm_eap: Loaded and initialized type mschapv2
      Module: Instantiated eap (eap) 
      ......
      Module: Loaded files 
       files: usersfile = "/usr/local/etc/raddb/users" (4)
      ...... 
      Module: Instantiated radutmp (radutmp) 
      Listening on authentication *:1812
      Listening on accounting *:1813
      Ready to process requests. (5)
      
    (1)
    Default EAP type is set to PEAP.
    (2)
    RADIUS's TLS settings are initiated here. The certificate type, location, and password are listet here.
    (3)
    Inside the PEAP tunnel, MS-CHAPv2 is used.
    (4)
    The username/password information is found in the users file.
    (5)
    RADIUS server started successfully. Waiting for incoming requests. .:: www.redsea.gov.eg ::.

    The radius server is now ready to process requests! [Open Source Distributed computing]

    The most interesting output is included above. If you get any error message instead of the last line, go over the configuration (above) carefully.

  2. Now the Supplicant is ready to get authenticated. Start Xsupplicant in debug mode. Note that we'll see output produced by the two startup scripts: startup.sh and startup2.sh.

      # xsupplicant -c /usr/local/etc/1x/1x.conf -i eth0 -d 6
      Starting /etc/1x/startup.sh
      Finished /etc/1x/startup.sh
      Starting /etc/1x/startup2.sh
      Finished /etc/1x/startup2.sh
      
  3. At the same time, the RADIUS server is producing a lot of output. Key snippets are shown below:

      ......
      rlm_eap: Request found, released from the list
      rlm_eap: EAP/peap
      rlm_eap: processing type peap
      rlm_eap_peap: Authenticate
      rlm_eap_tls: processing TLS (1)
      eaptls_verify returned 7 
      rlm_eap_tls: Done initial handshake 
      eaptls_process returned 7 
      rlm_eap_peap: EAPTLS_OK (2)
      rlm_eap_peap: Session established.  Decoding tunneled attributes.
      rlm_eap_peap: Received EAP-TLV response.
      rlm_eap_peap: Tunneled data is valid.
      rlm_eap_peap: Success
      rlm_eap: Freeing handler
      modcall[authenticate]: module "eap" returns ok for request 8
    modcall: group authenticate returns ok for request 8
    Login OK: [testuser/<no User-Password attribute>] (from client testnet port 37 cli 0002a56fa08a)
    Sending Access-Accept of id 8 to 192.168.2.1:1032 (3)
    	MS-MPPE-Recv-Key = 0xf21757b96f52ddaefe084c343778d0082c2c8e12ce18ae10a79c550ae61a5206 (4)
    	MS-MPPE-Send-Key = 0x5e1321e06a45f7ac9f78fb9d398cab5556bff6c9d003cdf8161683bfb7e7af18 
    	EAP-Message = 0x030a0004
    	Message-Authenticator = 0x00000000000000000000000000000000
    	User-Name = "testuser"
      
    (1)
    TLS session startup. Doing TLS-handshake.
    (2)
    The TLS session (PEAP-encrypted tunnel) is up.
    (3)
    The Supplicant has been authenticated successfully by the RADIUS server. An "Access-Accept" message is sent.
    (4)
    The MS-MPPE-Recv-Key [RFC2548 section 2.4.3] contains the Pairwise Master Key (PMK) destined to the Authenticator (access point), encrypted with the MPPE Protocol [RFC3078], using the shared secret between the Authenticator and Authentication Server as key. The Supplicant derives the same PMK from MK, as described in .:: telegra.ph ::. Key Management.
  4. The Authenticator (access point) may also show something like this in its log: .:: linkingdirectory.com ::. .:: syosetu.org ::.

      00:02:16 (Info): Station 0002a56fa08a Associated
      00:02:17 (Info): Station=0002a56fa08a User="testuser" EAP-Authenticated 
      

That's it! The Supplicant is now authenticated to use the Access Point!

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