Novice user. Authenticate against Radius Server

[Alan DeKok]

German Anguiano Bayardo wrote:
> They say the only missing part is a Radius Server where to authenticate the users. The steps are as follows:
> 1.- The user uses his laptop to access Internet, open the web browser and get a Welcome Page, where they have to login
> 2-. When they give user an password, the access point verifies it against a Radius Server, just for access statistics purposes.
> 3.- If it's a valid user, he/she can have access to Internet. 
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> Can anyone point me to the right path ??

  You want a captive portal, like
http://coova.org/wiki/index.php/CoovaChilli

  Once that's set up, a RADIUS server should be relatively easy.
Install, follow the docs...

  Alan DeKok.