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[Stefan Winter <stefan.winter AT restena.lu>]

Hello,

> We are having problems with users trying to connect to Eduroam after
> installing the profile via CAT.
> 
> We can see that altho the user enter his credentials in the installer,
> out RADIUS logs shows that all users are trying to connect with the same
> username: “eduroam.weizmann.ac.il” and
> obviously fails to authenticate.

Looking at your CAT profile settings, I see that you have enabled the
"Use anonymous outer identity" setting, have set the local part to
"eduroam" and the realm is weizmann.ac.il

This means all users will authenticate with the same anonymous outer
identity "eduroam AT weizmann.ac.il". There is nothing wrong with everyone
coming in the same outer identity. It's a privacy-enhancing feature and
as an administrator you can either turn it on or off.

Of course your RADIUS server must be capable of handling that, i.e. able
to extract the actual usernames from within the protected TLS tunnel in
PEAP's phase 2. Obviously, you should only configure anonymous outer
identities in CAT if your RADIUS server is configured to handle them.

The only thing that would worry me here is that you write the outer
username starts with "eduroam." instead of "eduroam@". Was that a typo,
or is that part of your statement the actual problem you have?

> Please fix it as soon as you can because we have dozens of users abroad
> and the manual standard method is impractical to do by phone or emails.

On the flip side, we have thousands of IdPs using the anonymous outer ID
feature and we didn't get any problem reports so far. So I'd be
surprised if this feature were deterministically broken. If you do see
wrong username construction, it might be helpful to tell us which
operating system's installers exhibit these failures.

Greetings,

Stefan Winter

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