Yes I do plan on using a RoR application to make the changes to the MySQL database.
So I think this is coming together. However, the username and password... where is the user responsible for using those credentials.
Would a user connect to my WiFi network, then authenticate against the RADIUS server using credentials obtained through a Ruby on Rails application?
Here's the workflow I am thinking to build this:
1. User connects to WiFi network.
2. User is directed to a Ruby on Rails application.
3. Application authorizes user to connect, creates credentials and propagates them to FreeRadius.
4. Application gives credentials to user.
5. User enters credentials (where?)
I need hotspot functionality so I am almost there in terms of everything I need to build. Are these points rational? Also, where are the credentials entered in #5? Wouldn't I just need to deliver an IP or something to that machine at that point?
Thanks
Matthew.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 6:00 PM,
<tnt@kalik.net> wrote:
>So I just want to make sure I am headed down the right path. I have a WLAN
>controller that will be configured to use RADIUS for authentication.
>Currently it (WLAN) uses its own user accounts on the controller. Does this
>mean that the WLAN will deliver an IP after the RADIUS has authenticated the
>user?
Yes.
>How does a user authenticate to the RADIUS server?
With username and password. Or a certificate.
>Basically I need to automate the current manual task of creating the user
>accounts on the WLAN.
>
You said you were going to make a Ruby application that will handle that.
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Matthew Carriere
matthew@blackninjasoftware.com