Should auto-detect EAP authentication type
Originally filed as https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624939 but still valid afaics
This bug was reported as http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586858
In talking with someone who uses wpa-supplicant directly to connect to a WPA-EAP-protected network, they asked why NetworkManager needs to ask for the EAP authentication type (TTLS, PEAP, etc), and why it needs to ask for the inner authentication type. Apparently, wpa-supplicant can autodetect all of those from an EAP configuration packet. It certainly would make connecting to WPA networks easier if NetworkManager could autodetect this as well (or let wpa-supplicant do so)
mbiebl: yes, that's possible. what we need to do on the NM side is allow more than one EAP configuration in a connection mbiebl: like Mac OS X and windows have basically checkbox lists that allow you to enable any number of EAP methods for a certain network mbiebl: that means you still get to configure the methods you want to allow mbiebl: but after having done so, we'd be