SECURITY How To Enable 802.1X (Vlan Authentication)

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[bewerken] Introduction

The objective of this How To, is to help configure an Gentoo Desktop/Notebook in a IEEE 802.1X (Port Based Network Access Control) environment.

This document assumes that it is a recent installation based in Universal Live CD.

[bewerken] Requirements

• XSupplicant - The Open 802.1X Implementation - XSupplicant Page
• Network Credentials (Username / Password / LDAP Information / etc.)
• Certificates if needed

[bewerken] Finding Dependencies

echo 'net-misc/xsupplicant ~x86' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
emerge -pv xsupplicant

[bewerken] Download Sources and Dependencies

At another computer with internet connection:

Download the required files (Change X.X.X by Correct Version showed in emerge -pv xsupplicant command:

wget --passive-ftp ftp://ftp.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/gentoo/distfiles/pcsc-lite-X.X.X.tar.gz
wget --passive-ftp ftp://ftp.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/gentoo/distfiles/libusb-X.X.X.tar.gz
wget --passive-ftp ftp://ftp.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/gentoo/distfiles/xsupplicant-X.X.X.tar.gz

Copy downloaded files to CDRom or USB Drive.

[bewerken] Install

Move the downloaded source-files to /usr/portage/distfiles/ in Gentoo-Box and check dependencies:

emerge -av xsupplicant

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