FreeRADIUS Beginner's Guide

Time for action – disabling unused EAP methods

Our organization decided to support the two tunneled EAP methods (PEAP and EAP-TTLS). We will disable the other methods and set the default EAP method to be PEAP:

1. Edit the eap.conf file located under the FreeRADIUS configuration directory. Disable the following methods by commenting them out completely: md5, leap, gtc, and mschapv2.
2. Change the default_eap_type directive from:

   default_eap_type = md5

   to:

   default_eap_type = peap

3. Restart FreeRADIUS in debug mode and check that the disabled EAP methods are not available any more. Here is the debug output from FreeRADIUS when we tried EAP-MD5. It confirms that EAP Type 4 (MD5) is not supported anymore:

   +- entering group authenticate {...}
   [eap] Request found, ...