Eduroam and UniWireless configuration for Linux
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:
[email protected](students) or[email protected](staff)
The full institutional email domain must be included in the username.

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.