Re: No full certificate chain in EAP in 3.2.7

Alan DeKok via Freeradius-Users <[email protected]> Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:22:36 -0400
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On Jun 29, 2026, at 7:56=E2=80=AFPM, Dave Wang <[email protected]> =
wrote:
> Recently I upgraded from freeradius 3.0.26 (with openssl 3.0.20) to
> 3.2.7/3.2.8,

  Why not use 3.2.10?

> (with openssl 3.5.0), and I noticed that the server does not
> send the full certificate chain to the EAP client anymore.
>=20
> The server certificate has a chained structure like cert->intermediate
> CA2->intermediate CA1->root CA, and I am relying on the auto_chain and =
the
> ca_path to construct the chain on the freeradius side.
>=20
> Now it only sends the server_certificate + intermediate CA2, but =
previously
> it sent all *four* certificates. Is this a known issue?

  No, but it might be related to differing OpenSSL behavior.

  Disable auto_chain, and create the chains manually.  As the comments =
for auto_chain say, sometimes OpenSSL gets it wrong.

  Alan DeKok.


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