I am running a dozen assorted physical and virtual servers with Ubuntu 22-24 and one lonely Windows 11 Pro VM in my home lab behind Pfsense CE 2.7.2 and I am looking for a SIMPLE authentication method to keep all my passwords straight. Knowing my limits with Windows I decided on Freeradius.
To start, none of these servers are exposed to the interwebs. All of the Ubuntu servers were ridiculously easy to set up with a VM running Freeradius then I realized there was a version available on Pfsense. I configured Freeradius on Pfsense and dumped the VM and it was downhill from there … until I came to that one damn Windows box. I am not a Windows guy. I can stumble through most things but NPS/802.1x/Radius was completely foreign territory to me (give me Unix PAM any day over this!).
To be perfectly clear, it’s just me authenticating on my servers in my home lab I am comfortable running Freeradius in its basic default mode without AD or any other back end databases. Unfortunately I cannot find a video or doc that doesn’t have every other flavor in the mix. And if I do find something simple its not about Win 11 which, also, is apparently quite different than Win 10.
Can anyone point me to a K.I.S.S. version of how to configure 802.1x/authendication on a Windows 11 Pro VM talking to the Pfsense Freeradius service? Since it’s Winders pictures would be nice, but I’ll take whatever I can get. Thanks for reading!
G.S.