One of the laptops has a FreeRADUS instance that is configured as an Identity Provider. There is a user defined in /etc/freeradius/users Username: steve@example.com Password: testing FreeRADIUS is configured to return a SAML authentication assertion in the post-auth section of sites-available/default. Any RADIUS client using a secret of testing123 in 192.168/16 will work (see /etc/freeradius/clients.conf)