Activity log for bug #1739578

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2017-12-21 09:27:26 Viktor Petersson bug added bug
2017-12-21 09:35:34 Viktor Petersson bug added subscriber Kyle Nitzsche
2017-12-21 09:42:01 Viktor Petersson summary Netplan does not support WPA2 Enterprise Missing support for WPA2 Enterprise
2017-12-21 12:19:40 Renat bug added subscriber Renat
2017-12-21 12:21:32 Sergey Borovkov bug added subscriber Sergey Borovkov
2018-01-10 19:10:51 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre netplan: status New Triaged
2018-01-10 19:10:53 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre netplan: importance Undecided Wishlist
2018-02-15 19:41:22 Francis Ginther tags id-5a53db44a42020685170ca68
2018-05-05 15:22:50 Sjoerd Thomas bug watch added https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=871488
2018-05-05 16:39:54 Sjoerd Thomas bug added subscriber Sjoerd Thomas
2018-12-03 14:01:25 Julian Alarcon bug added subscriber Julian Alarcon
2018-12-13 16:38:31 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre netplan: status Triaged Fix Committed
2018-12-13 16:38:38 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre bug task added netplan.io (Ubuntu)
2018-12-13 16:40:00 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre netplan.io (Ubuntu): status New In Progress
2018-12-13 16:40:02 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre netplan.io (Ubuntu): importance Undecided Wishlist
2018-12-14 23:14:31 Launchpad Janitor netplan.io (Ubuntu): status In Progress Fix Released
2019-03-11 19:12:15 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre netplan: status Fix Committed Fix Released
2019-03-11 19:26:10 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre description With Ubuntu 17.10 switching to using Netplan as the default network configuration method (https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/07/10/netplan-by-default-in-17-10/), more and more users will start migrating over to Netplan. This is good news, as Netplan is a nice abstraction. One issue that I've run across already with Netplan is that it doesn't support WPA2 Enterprise (or 802.1x in general AFAIK). This is a blocker for most enterprise and educational deployments (in particular on Ubuntu Core). It would be great if Netplan could add this support natively such that it can become the standard for network configuration that it aspires to be with the recent developments. [Impact] Ubuntu users (especially on servers) wishing to make use of wireless devices and configure them via netplan. [Test case] /!\ Requires a network setup with 802.1x security 1) Install Ubuntu server on system that needs to connect to a wireless network secured with WPA2 Enterprise, or 802.1x wired. == For each backend (networkd, NetworkManager) == 2) Configure netplan to enable access to the network (configurations may vary, use this as an example): network: version: 2 renderer: <backend> wifis: wlan0: dhcp4: yes access-points: workplace: auth: key-management: eap method: ttls anonymous-identity: "@internal.example.com" identity: "joe@internal.example.com" password: "v3ryS3kr1t" (the auth: stanza is the important one which defines security for the network) 3) Run 'sudo netplan apply' or reboot. 4) Validate that the system connects succesfully to the 802.1x-secured network. == For each backend (networkd, NetworkManager) == 2) Configure netplan to access a wireless network secured using WPA2 Personal network: version: 2 renderer: <backend> wifis: wlan0: dhcp4: yes access-points: home: password: mysupersecurepassword 3) Run 'sudo netplan apply' or reboot. 4) Validate that the system connects successfully to the network. [Regression potential] Watch out for issues related to connecting to previously accessible networks; this adds further configuration to the wpa configuration generated by netplan as well as to the NetworkManager configuration when using the NetworkManager backend. Existing configurations for WPA2 personal have been made into a shorthand for specifying key-management and cipher methods for 'wpa2-psk'. --- With Ubuntu 17.10 switching to using Netplan as the default network configuration method (https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/07/10/netplan-by-default-in-17-10/), more and more users will start migrating over to Netplan. This is good news, as Netplan is a nice abstraction. One issue that I've run across already with Netplan is that it doesn't support WPA2 Enterprise (or 802.1x in general AFAIK). This is a blocker for most enterprise and educational deployments (in particular on Ubuntu Core). It would be great if Netplan could add this support natively such that it can become the standard for network configuration that it aspires to be with the recent developments.
2019-03-22 09:10:11 Timo Aaltonen netplan.io (Ubuntu Cosmic): status New Fix Committed
2019-03-22 09:10:13 Timo Aaltonen bug added subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2019-03-22 09:10:15 Timo Aaltonen bug added subscriber SRU Verification
2019-03-22 09:10:20 Timo Aaltonen tags id-5a53db44a42020685170ca68 id-5a53db44a42020685170ca68 verification-needed verification-needed-cosmic
2019-03-22 09:17:48 Timo Aaltonen netplan.io (Ubuntu Bionic): status New Fix Committed
2019-03-22 09:17:52 Timo Aaltonen tags id-5a53db44a42020685170ca68 verification-needed verification-needed-cosmic id-5a53db44a42020685170ca68 verification-needed verification-needed-bionic verification-needed-cosmic
2019-04-03 17:02:34 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre tags id-5a53db44a42020685170ca68 verification-needed verification-needed-bionic verification-needed-cosmic id-5a53db44a42020685170ca68 verification-done-bionic verification-done-cosmic
2019-04-10 21:19:11 Steve Langasek tags id-5a53db44a42020685170ca68 verification-done-bionic verification-done-cosmic id-5a53db44a42020685170ca68 verification-done-cosmic verification-needed verification-needed-bionic
2019-04-11 18:49:35 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre tags id-5a53db44a42020685170ca68 verification-done-cosmic verification-needed verification-needed-bionic id-5a53db44a42020685170ca68 verification-done-bionic verification-done-cosmic verification-needed
2019-04-11 18:49:41 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre tags id-5a53db44a42020685170ca68 verification-done-bionic verification-done-cosmic verification-needed id-5a53db44a42020685170ca68 verification-done-bionic verification-done-cosmic
2019-04-15 22:32:43 Launchpad Janitor netplan.io (Ubuntu Cosmic): status Fix Committed Fix Released
2019-04-15 22:33:13 Brian Murray removed subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2019-04-18 23:37:57 Steve Langasek netplan.io (Ubuntu Cosmic): status Fix Released Fix Committed
2019-04-22 13:31:10 Sjoerd Thomas removed subscriber Sjoerd Thomas
2019-04-22 13:31:20 Sjoerd Thomas bug added subscriber Sjoerd Thomas
2019-04-30 21:02:02 Brian Murray bug added subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2019-04-30 21:02:10 Brian Murray tags id-5a53db44a42020685170ca68 verification-done-bionic verification-done-cosmic id-5a53db44a42020685170ca68 verification-done-bionic verification-needed verification-needed-cosmic
2019-04-30 21:56:23 Brian Murray tags id-5a53db44a42020685170ca68 verification-done-bionic verification-needed verification-needed-cosmic id-5a53db44a42020685170ca68 verification-needed verification-needed-bionic verification-needed-cosmic
2019-05-02 22:04:36 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre tags id-5a53db44a42020685170ca68 verification-needed verification-needed-bionic verification-needed-cosmic id-5a53db44a42020685170ca68 verification-done-bionic verification-needed verification-needed-cosmic
2019-05-02 22:04:49 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre tags id-5a53db44a42020685170ca68 verification-done-bionic verification-needed verification-needed-cosmic id-5a53db44a42020685170ca68 verification-done-bionic verification-done-cosmic
2019-05-08 00:00:42 Launchpad Janitor netplan.io (Ubuntu Bionic): status Fix Committed Fix Released
2019-05-08 00:01:20 Launchpad Janitor netplan.io (Ubuntu Cosmic): status Fix Committed Fix Released