Comments on: IAS Shared Secrets Aren’t So Secret

By: Toni

Toni — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:41:39 +0000

Good call – netsh is great for configuring a number of network related services

By: Thomas S. Trias

Thomas S. Trias — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:42:03 +0000

You can also configure IAS using netsh aaaa.

By: LFCole

LFCole — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 21:27:46 +0000

I might give this a go, although I’m sure my boss would just prefer that I spend the hours entering data instead of spending them trying to actually learn something!

Might not be so difficult if I knew anything about Access at all! Unfortunately my experience is limited to relatively flat tables with a few “lookup” tables thrown in to make entry easier (think simple inventory db)

Exported the tables into excel to look at them. Looks like the data is in 2 different tables:
Friendly name is in the Objects table. IP and shared secret are in the Properties table.

Could be as simple as copy and paste into that spreadsheet and then import back to access, but that would take just as long as the copy and paste I’m doing into the GUI.

By: Toni

Toni — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 22:07:48 +0000

It’s been a while since I took a long at those two files, but there is a good chance you’d be able to mass import your entries with little problem if you have MS Access.

I would back up your MDB files first, but then create a new Access DB, import the info from your excel spreadsheet into a table. Then link to the Objects table. Then create a new insert query that takes the contents of the imported data and inserts it into the Objects table (you may have to massage the query and/or your import data to get the fields correct). I think it could definitely be worth it to save you the time of going through the GUI interface 400 times. Let me know if you do end up going this route, I’d be curious to see how it goes!

By: LFCole

LFCole — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 21:14:21 +0000

That is very interesting. If only I could figure a way to use this to my advantage. I need to create 400 new RADIUS Clients, with only the friendly names and IP addresses changing…..all will be using the same shared secret. Would be awesome to be able to do a mass import, especially since I have the name and IP info in a spreadsheet!