The life of a CA Copenhagen Campus Connection

For a while now its been bugging me, that I was unable to use our radius controlled wifi-access on campus from my iPhone, so it was time to investigate how to resolve it. 

It turned out to be ridiculously easy

First you need to download and install the iPhone Configuration Utility 1.0.1 to your Mac
From within this tool you make a new configuration profile containing the right radius authentication with TTLS-PAP

Afterwards you export the .mobileconfig file (which is basically a normal mac plist XML based file)

Now upload the file to a webserver of your liking fx. Apache - and change the httpd.conf file to include the following MIME-type to recognize the file on the iPhone

AddType application/x-apple-aspen-config mobileconfig

Now open up Safari on the iPhone and go to the URL, where the .mobileconfig-file is located.

You now get the option to install the configuration. Press the Install button. (Sorry - text on screenshots is in Danish!)

You now get prompted to type in your radius username - type it and press Next

Now you get prompted to type in your radius password - type it and press Next

Press OK to the confirmation that the configuration has been installed.

Now go to the Preference wifi-pane on the iPhone and choose eduroam, you will get prompted with the radius certificate - press Agree

Congratulations - you're now on eduroam/radius with TTLS-PAP authentication