README.md

IWD configuration for eduroam network

Warning

This script was designed to work with the eduroam and polimi-protected networks at Politecnico di Milano, if you are from another university, the configuration file will need to be tweaked.

Usage:

1. Follow the official instructions in the official Polimi website, in order to obtain a personal certificate-XXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXX.p12 file and to download the eduroam cat script.

2. Run the eduroam script to generate the wpa_supplicant configuration

   python3 eduroam-linux-PdM-polimi-TLS.py --wpa_conf

3. Open a terminal window, then clone this repository and cd into it

   git clone https://github.com/collodel/iwd-eduroam-config.git
   cd iwd-eduroam-config

4. In the terminal window, copy ca.pem and user.p12 from ~/.config/cat_installer to the current directory:

   cp ~/.config/cat_installer/ca.pem ~/.config/cat_installer/user.p12 .

5. Execute the configuration script

   ./create_config.sh <person_code> ./user.p12 <password_of_p12_cert_file>

6. Move the required files to /var/lib/iwd

   sudo mv -vn eduroam.8021x eduroam.crt.pem eduroam.key.pem /var/lib/iwd/
   sudo mv -vn ca.pem /var/lib/iwd/eduroam.pem
   sudo cp -vn /var/lib/iwd/eduroam.8021x /var/lib/iwd/polimi-protected.8021x # needed for the polimi-protected network

7. Fix the permissions (if needed)

   sudo chown root:root eduroam.8021x eduroam.crt.pem eduroam.key.pem eduroam.pem polimi-protected.8021x

8. Connecting to either network should be working now!

Notes:

• The main problem in configuring eduroam with TLS arises when using the .p12 file, that contains at the same time both the user certificate and the private key. This script mainly extracts these two different files from the .p12 file in order for iwd to be able to use them separately (TODO: there seems to exist EAP-TLS-ClientKeyBundle as an option here that takes the .p12 file directly).
• The eduroam configuration with TTLS seems to work only with polimi-protected, so I think this is the best way to configure eduroam at Polimi.