Authenticate users for a hotel through webpage?
Hi, maybe someone can point me to the right direction as it seems I use wrong keywords for my search in the list and on google. I am trying to use freeradius with wlan to authenticate hotel guests that need i-net access. They would prefer that the customer could visit a webpage entering the username / password combination they got at hotel-reception. Would this be a authentication methode which freeradius can handle or do I have to use other authentication modules for such a purpose? The most important thing is: Easy to use for the hotel staff at registering / deleting guests and easy to use for the guests at login. TIA and br, mfred
Hi!
it seems I use wrong keywords for my search in the list and on google.
Have you tried the keyword "Captive Portal" yet? It leads for example to a very nice Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal Greetings, Stefan Winter -- Stefan WINTER Stiftung RESTENA - Réseau Téléinformatique de l'Education Nationale et de la Recherche Ingenieur Forschung & Entwicklung 6, rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi L-1359 Luxembourg E-Mail: stefan.winter@restena.lu Tel.: +352 424409-1 http://www.restena.lu Fax: +352 422473
Am Mittwoch, 14. Dezember 2005 12:30 schrieb mfred:
Hi,
maybe someone can point me to the right direction as it seems I use wrong keywords for my search in the list and on google. I am trying to use freeradius with wlan to authenticate hotel guests that need i-net access.
They would prefer that the customer could visit a webpage entering the username / password combination they got at hotel-reception. Would this be a authentication methode which freeradius can handle or do I have to use other authentication modules for such a purpose?
The most important thing is: Easy to use for the hotel staff at registering / deleting guests and easy to use for the guests at login.
TIA and br,
mfred
hi, how do you do accounting in this case? Does the user has to go to the same web site again and to say good-bye? Or don't you do time-based accounting? What else? Accounting flat per room number, per traffic? I think there are better solutions than that. Greetings, -- Dr. Michael Schwartzkopff MultiNET Services GmbH Bretonischer Ring 7 85630 Grasbrunn Tel: (+49 89) 456 911 - 0 Fax: (+49 89) 456 911 - 21 mob: (+49 174) 343 28 75 PGP Fingerprint: F919 3919 FF12 ED5A 2801 DEA6 AA77 57A4 EDD8 979B Skype: misch42
how do you do accounting in this case? Does the user has to go to the same web site again and to say good-bye? Or don't you do time-based accounting? What else? Accounting flat per room number, per traffic? I think there are better solutions than that.
AFAIK they only sell it in daily units but sure the accounting would be a nice thing. Open to any better suggestions (as far as they stay simple for the guests). br & grüsse nach D mfred
mfred wrote:
maybe someone can point me to the right direction as it seems I use wrong keywords for my search in the list and on google. I am trying to use freeradius with wlan to authenticate hotel guests that need i-net access.
They would prefer that the customer could visit a webpage entering the username / password combination they got at hotel-reception. Would this be a authentication methode which freeradius can handle or do I have to use other authentication modules for such a purpose?
The most important thing is: Easy to use for the hotel staff at registering / deleting guests and easy to use for the guests at login.
TIA and br,
mfred
Hi, we build a complete solution for Internet access for hotel guests, marinas etc. using FreeRadius. With a web-based control panel, different staff permission levels, custom defined access packages etc. No server at the hotel required, we operate them centrally on the Internet ... www.pointHotspot.com Individual hotel login page pops up when guest/user goes to any website, they type in username and password and can then use the Internet as long as they are allowed. Gunther
Hello mfred, It is just the same things I want to achieve here in my university. This is captive portal (hope this is good translation) For that, I had to use chillispot, apache2, freeradius and ldap. I think, please correct me if freeradius is only able to do the whole thing ..., Freeradius is just a piece of the puzzle. - apache2 host the webpage for authentification (a cgi script) (using ssl) - chilispot use vtun in order to take control of your network interface plug to your wireless area (and thus redirect you to the apache page for authentification if you're not !) - freeradius handle the authentification and accounting using our pre-existing ldap directory listing all the users (teachers, students ...). I have written a complete howto that I'll post this afternoon or tomorrow (needs typo correction) to chillispot forum. I can send you the draft if you need. (I hope freeradius can't do the stuff so that I'm not making ads for anotyher system :D). HTH, Regards, Christophe. mfred wrote:
Hi,
maybe someone can point me to the right direction as it seems I use wrong keywords for my search in the list and on google. I am trying to use freeradius with wlan to authenticate hotel guests that need i-net access.
They would prefer that the customer could visit a webpage entering the username / password combination they got at hotel-reception. Would this be a authentication methode which freeradius can handle or do I have to use other authentication modules for such a purpose?
The most important thing is: Easy to use for the hotel staff at registering / deleting guests and easy to use for the guests at login.
TIA and br,
mfred
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Christophe Gravier wrote:
Hello mfred,
It is just the same things I want to achieve here in my university. This is captive portal (hope this is good translation)
For that, I had to use chillispot, apache2, freeradius and ldap. I think, please correct me if freeradius is only able to do the whole thing ..., Freeradius is just a piece of the puzzle.
- apache2 host the webpage for authentification (a cgi script) (using ssl) - chilispot use vtun in order to take control of your network interface plug to your wireless area (and thus redirect you to the apache page for authentification if you're not !) - freeradius handle the authentification and accounting using our pre-existing ldap directory listing all the users (teachers, students ...).
I have written a complete howto that I'll post this afternoon or tomorrow (needs typo correction) to chillispot forum. I can send you the draft if you need. (I hope freeradius can't do the stuff so that I'm not making ads for anotyher system :D). Don't forget the wiki.freeradius.org site.
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