[maemo-users] Maemo5 & WPA2 EAP TTLS+GTC

[From: Pali Rohár]

Hello,

I needed to connect to WiFi WPA2 network which using EAP/TTLS+GTC 
authentification. Maemo5 has for these settings chechboxes in 
Control Panel, but it does not remember password for TTLS+GTC 
authentification. It is really annoing that user must enter 
password every time.

I found which Maemo application is responsible for EAP 
authentification. It is daemon /usr/bin/eapd which is in Nokia 
non-free proprietary package osso-wlan-security. So fixing this 
bug is not possible :-(

But I found string "EAP_GTC_passcode" in that daemon, so it 
should read password from some configuration. I stored wifi GTC 
password to gconf and it worked.

So problem is that Maemo Control Panel Connections GUI does not 
have password field for TTLS+GTC authentification and eapd daemon 
does not store password automatically.

*Here is manual solution how to store password for EAP/TTLS+GTC*

1. Find gconf dir for wifi network:

This shell script will print all wifi networks with gconf dir:

for line in `gconftool --all-dirs /system/osso/connectivity/IAP`; 
do gconftool -g $line/name; echo $line; echo; done

2. Set/Change password for wifi network specified by gconf dir:

replace <dir> with gconf dir from step 1 and <password> for real

gconftool -s '<dir>/EAP_GTC_passcode' -t string '<password>'

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar at gmail.com
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