Connect RPi to IITB-Wireless

[Nihal Singh]

Hello all,

I've been tinkering with an RPi 3 in the past week, in an attempt to setup a renewed version of the RPi TV Noticeboard (initiated by Manish and Kamal) in my hostel.
At one point, I needed to connect it to the IITB-Wireless network and I couldn't use the GUI as I had no mouse and keyboard to operate with on the RPi (and was lazy enough to set up VNC).

I could not find how to connect through PEAP in the official docs, however found multiple solutions like these. This allowed me to connect successfully, however it required me to save my LDAP password in plain text.

Digging up further, I found a way to set up the configuration with the NtPasswordHash. The hash can simply be found by running this in bash-

echo -n plaintext_password_here | iconv -t utf16le | openssl md4
(UTF-16LE for macOS)

The password in the wpa_supplicant.conf file then needs to be set to-
password=hash:generated_hash

The complete setup is described in my gist here. Sharing it here for someone who might find it useful in the future.

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The first RPi TV Noticeboard, which is meant to serve as an alternative to print publicity by displaying posters one after the other, is up and running in my hostel (H-9). Another one would be set up in TL shortly.
With the help of the GSecs, I've written to the Dean and we're pushing for all hostels wardens to buy a TV and allow us to set it up for this purpose.

The website is hosted at http://noticeboard.wncc-iitb.org/. New photos and galleries can be added effortlessly through the admin interface by granting access to design conveners from all genres.

Below are a few photos of it working in H-9.




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Regards,
Nihal