Wifi Permissions per User

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I was sitting here thinking about Wifi, permissions and file access. I wanted to know if there's a way to setup individual user and passwords on wifi sort of the same way you do on a windows server but also set permissions to what files/folders they can access on the server when connected to WIFI? Is there a device or special type of WIFI product that allows you to do this?

Frank

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 16 '18 at 17:52

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If you have an AD domain, you can set up RADIUS role on your Windows Server 2012. UniFi (both from the tags) can use RADIUS for WPA2 Enterprise authentication; either for users or even better, for devices. If you use Group Policy for setting up WiFi profiles with computer authentication, all your Windows devices with AD computer account can connect to the WiFi without giving usernames and passwords, but you'd still need user authentication for BYOD devices.

Unfortunately the file access doesn't come directly from the RADIUS authentication, but with AD connected devices you already have the access from the logged-in user account. That's how it's done professionally on a Windows AD domain.

answered May 16 '18 at 17:52

Esa Jokinen

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similiar works for samba/freeradius when using linux. – Dennis Nolte May 17 '18 at 07:15
@DennisNolte. True. This question was about Windows Server 2012 and UniFi. – Esa Jokinen May 17 '18 at 07:20
True enough, i didnt read the question as specifically searching a solution for windows/unify but instead as a "general" way of method. – Dennis Nolte May 17 '18 at 07:33

Wifi Permissions per User

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