---
title: Eduroam and UniWireless configuration for Linux
date: 2015-03-10
published: 2015-03-10
tags: ['technology', 'eduroam']
stale: true
description: "Network settings for eduroam and UniWireless on Linux at the University of Melbourne, plus VPN access via openconnect."
---

Eduroam is a wireless network available at educational institutions globally, allowing students and staff to connect at participating institutions worldwide using their home institution credentials.

## Eduroam

For University of Melbourne users:

- **SSID:** eduroam
- **Security:** WPA & WPA2 Enterprise
- **Authentication:** Protected EAP (PEAP)
- **Inner authentication:** MSCHAPv2
- **Username:** `username@student.unimelb.edu.au` (students) or `username@unimelb.edu.au` (staff)

The full institutional email domain must be included in the username.

![](/images/eduroam-linux/eduroam-settings.jpg)

## UniWireless

UniWireless is the on-campus network at the University of Melbourne. The key difference from eduroam is that the full email address is not required.

- **SSID:** UniWireless
- **Security:** WPA & WPA2 Enterprise
- **Authentication:** Protected EAP (PEAP)
- **Inner authentication:** MSCHAPv2
- **Username:** your unimelb username only (no domain suffix)

## VPN

For remote access to university resources, Linux users can use `openconnect`:

```
sudo apt-get install openconnect
sudo openconnect remote.unimelb.edu.au/student
```

Use the same credentials as UniWireless: username without the domain suffix.