Junior Job for knetworkmanager - implement GTC auth

Will Stephenson wstephenson at kde.org
Fri Oct 23 10:16:52 CEST 2009


GTC [1] is an inner authentication method for PEAP wireless security.  Support 
for it was recently added to NetworkManager and KNetworkManager does not yet 
have the UI to select GTC.

From:  https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208219

To do this Junior Job, look in libs/ui/security/peapwidget.h and see how 
existing auth methods are defined (eg eapmethodsimple for username/password 
methods, eapmethodleap for a more complex method) and registered 
(peapwidget.cpp).  Then define a suitable eap method for GTC (extend 
eapmethodsimple if it is only username+password) and register it to the peap 
widget.

You probably also want to have a recent NetworkManager (Kubuntu Karmic or 
Fedora 12 will have GTC support in NM or ask me about updated NM packages for 
openSUSE) and have access to a PEAP-GTC network to test this. 

Ask me if you need help with this task or assign it to yourself at 
bugs.kde.org at the above URL.  

Will

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_Extensible_Authentication_Protocol


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