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I have a Meraki wifi network that's authenticating via RADIUS to an Active Directory. Users log in with their AD username and password via WPA2. That all works. However, when a user changes their AD password (due to expiration, forgotten password, whatever), their Mac doesn't prompt for a new password; instead, it just can't connect to the wifi. To fix this we have to go into Network Preferences -> Advanced -> Wifi -> Preferred Networks, delete the network, then make a new connection. This is kind of clunky, and gets us a helpdesk call every time.

Any ideas on what we could do about this?

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  • Please stop editing your title with insignificant changes to bump your post. If you really want a lot of eyes on it, offer a bounty.
    – MDMarra
    May 9, 2012 at 22:38
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    I'm trying to clarify what I'm looking for. I felt that the old title was misleading, and thus causing people to not look? Sure, I'll put a bounty on.
    – Bill Weiss
    May 9, 2012 at 22:43
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    I've filed an Apple bug report, #11419560.
    – Bill Weiss
    May 9, 2012 at 22:53
  • My bug has been closed as a duplicate of 10996590, which I can't see. Thanks, Apple.
    – Bill Weiss
    May 12, 2012 at 4:21

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A possiblly easier thing to do is delete the keychain entry for the wifi, or just change the password in keychain. Sorry I don't have a better option off hand.

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  • That's an interesting idea. Not much easier than poking at the Network Preferences manually, but many easier to automate? Dunno. I probably don't want an automatic job that deletes keychain entries :)
    – Bill Weiss
    May 10, 2012 at 0:21
  • I would write a script or small app that would allow the user to do this on their own. You can remove these entries by deleting a plist (I forget which one though). May 11, 2012 at 22:20
  • Login.keychain is the file, but that hold everything. I don't know of a way to just remove a single keychain entry through a script. May 11, 2012 at 23:06
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A talk with Apple tech support says that, indeed, there's no automatic way to do this. 10.8 doesn't seem to have changed this behavior.

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