How to add WPA Enterprise TLS connection in Kubuntu?

Question

how to add WPA2 Enterprise connection over TLS in Kubuntu 10.13, using its standard network manager? I want to connect to my university’s eduroam network and cannot do it.

When I try to do it in connections editor, when I do “add wireless connection”, after filling all necessary data (network’s ssid and security details with WPA2 Enterprise over TLS authentication) after clicking “OK” nothing happens. No connection’s being added.

When I add some empty connection (only ssid filled, no security checked) it is being added to connections list, and I can edit it, but again after inserting security data it does not save changes. So I cannot configure this connection.

Details I try to insert:

Security: WPA & WPA2 Enterprise
Authentication: TLS
Identity: [email protected]
User’s certificate: [None]
CA certificate: [path/to/cacert.pem]
User’s private key: [path/to/user.p12]
User’s key password: [pass]

What are other ways to set the connection?

Solution

1. Create new connection to eduroam without setting security options (just to get connection file with UUID etc.)
2. Edit /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/<connection_name_from_point_one> as root
3. Delete everything but connection, ipv4, and ipv6 sections

4. Add:

   [802-11-wireless]
   ssid=eduroam
   mode=infrastructure
   security=802-11-wireless-security
   
   [802-11-wireless-security]
   key-mgmt=wpa-eap
   
   [802-1x]
   eap=tls
   [email protected]
   client-cert=file:///path/to/your/private/key/[email protected]
   ca-cert=file:///path/to/ca-cert/cacert.pem
   private-key=file:///path/to/your/private/key/[email protected]
   private-key-password=XXXXXXXX
   system-ca-certs=false
   

   I think client-cert can be any file. The network doesn't need this, but NetworkManager does.

Comments

[Thomas Ward]

This will not work - user certificate is specific to each user, CA is a different cert.