Authenticating 10.7 Macs To A RADIUS Server With Certificate Enabled PEAP Authentication

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Subject’s a mouthful eh? Basically, I needed for my 10.7 Macs to authenticate to our RADIUS wireless network using PEAP authentication & the Mac’s Certificate from our domain.

Below are the steps taken.

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Submit User Information From AD Into The JSS At Login

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UPDATE: Since 8.61+ User information can be submitted following the method outlined here.

For couple of years now i’ve ran various flavours of the below script via a login policy on my Mac clients.

The purpose of this script is to first check if the user is a network user, & if so then perform a lookup of their account against AD grabbing information that can then be submitted to the JSS in the relevant fields as per the above.

See below for the script:

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Unlocking Preference Panes For Non-Admin Users On 10.6 & 10.7

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UPDATE: A tool called authbuddy has just come to my attention that will managed this better & for 10.7+.

Way back in November 2010 I posted a script that would unlock each secure system preference pane for non-admins, (this can be found here).

With Lion came a more granular way to achieve the same, but rather then have a script for 10.6 & another for 10.7 i’ve amalgamated them with an OS check in the script.

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Error: “This account does not have privileges to use Casper Admin/Remote”

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I started getting the above error when launching Casper Admin & Remote on my main mac.

This error would appear when launching Casper Admin & Remote, before i could enter any credentials. Which got me thinking: keychain!!

Yep sure enough, I had a saved password in my keychain.. once i deleted that all was well.