Difference between eap-generic and eap-config-full is still confusing for admins

[jornane]

Issue type

• Questions about the eduroamCAT or its usage should be sent to the users mailing list.

• Defect - Crash/memory corruption.

• Defect - Non-compliance with a standards document or incorrect OS API usage.

• Defect - Unexpected behaviour (obvious or has been verified by a project member).

• New feature request.

Defect/Feature description

How to reproduce issue

1. Go to the admin portal, go to the "Installer Fine-Tuning and Download" page for a PEAP or TTLS profile, that has an RCOI set.
2. Observe there is an EAP config device there.
3. Click the Download eduroam® Installer button.
4. Try to load the resulting .eap-config file in geteduroam.
5. Observe that Passpoint is not configured.

Detail of issue

This is the same issue as #271, which was closed without fully resolving it, and which is not replied to anymore. In #271, the "EAP config" profile was removed from the user view, but it is still in the admin view.

Administrators know that geteduroam uses eap-config profiles under the hood, so in order to test their CAT profiles, they download the .eap-config file from CAT and try to load it in the app, which is a supported feature of the geteduroam app on all platforms.

Recommended solution

• Add a device to the "Installer Fine-Tuning and Download" list, geteduroam, which is eap-generic.
• Possibly remove the "EAP config" (eap-config-full) device type from the admin interface as well; the format is not supported by any current application, and as such is of little use to admins.

Possibly add a device type which is specificly for geteduroam, in the same fashion as the device types android_4_7 and android_recent. In fact, android_recent refers to Android 8 and up, which is also supported by geteduroam.

[restena-sw]

Looking at the tickbox, it's "Defect - Unexpected Bahviour"? I don't see it that way really.

The current download produces a schema-valid file - maybe geteduroam has issues parsing that correctly; but then the current /name/ also doesn't suggest it should be used with geteduroam.

The same download section has a download for "Android 8 and higher", and my naive expectation is that an admin wanting an Android 8+ download uses that, rather than associating heavily on something they've heard somewhere and jumping to wrong conclusions.

This is something I understand more from an unsuspecting end-user side, not so much from an admin.

So, it's "unexpected behaviour" just fine, just not code-side but consumer-side. :-)

We can do your recommendation #1 easily; it's essentially cloning "Android 8 and higher" simply with a different display string "geteduroam" associated with it. If that makes the world a better place, why not.

[twoln]

Absolutely, and actually this probably comment does not belong to GitHub at all. This is not a coding but purely configuration issue. When preparing the new release for production I will ask Jorn to check that things look and work as he would expect.

[twoln]

Currently eep-generic has the following options set:

• compatibility for eduroamCAT - probably should be removed
• single language - probably correct
• OpenRoaming support - probably to be removed
  The title for this button should then be either "geteduroam" or "geteduroam profile". The second one would require a translation, but since this is admin area we can just let it go. I would be against just "geteduroam" as this could be misleading as pointing to the app itself.
  What about the icon for this - I guess the geteduroam one would be just fine?
  Finally - should we wait for the new release - I would thing that this is reasonable - people expect changes in such moments.

[twoln]

I have removed eep-config-full from the admin download as well. But I will have more requests for clarification later.