[isf-wifidog] Thanks, a bug (perhaps) and a question.

[vinay menon]

Hi Greg,
I always wondered whats the real advantage of a RADIUS server.I too have
done a setup of wifidog captive system for a Hotel and i only hacked into
the local database and php codes to customize it for the needs.

Now as you use RADIUS whats the benefit that you get compared to localhost
authentication??



Regards,
Vinay

On 10/26/06, listserv.traffic at sloop.net <listserv.traffic at sloop.net> wrote:
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> I had initially started working on a Chilli install, but abandoned it.
> (Horribly unimpressed...)
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> I don't care for the fact that DHCP, firewalling, routing etc, is all
> built into Chilli. (At least that's what I understood - perhaps I'm wrong.)
>
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> I had quite a lot of trouble and the community there seemed dead. I
> couldn't get replies to virtually anything, and their forum had spam
> postings all over the place...
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>
> Anyway, I heard rumor that Mac's had problems with the DHCP server built
> into Chilli, and that's a serious problem for me. I can't be baby sitting
> this thing all the time. So, having something that just works, and uses as
> many standard linux apps as possible will make life a lot easier I suspect.
> (Why recreate the wheel...and all... And when something doesn't work right,
> which will get fixed quicker, Chilli or the DHCP Daemon, or IPTables etc!)
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> I've got WifiDog working mostly the way I want, though doing modifications
> of the web-forms is a bit messy.
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> Radius seems to work well! (Cheers to who ever did the radius thing!)
>
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> Using PGAdmin3 allowed me to easily add the User ID to the "Admin" table
> too, so that's fixed! [Getting an "Admin" equiv radius login.] (Thanks
> Benoit!)
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> I already had a few WRT54GL's sitting here for this project and I'm
> loading Coova right now. (Man, that thing is really very, *very* nice. I've
> never messed with OpenWRT, but Coova is just simply slick, painless. Yay for
> the Coova folks.
>
>
> Anyway, other than some messy template edits, which I'll address later -
> things are going quite well. (I'm in way too many hours to recoup it all in
> fees, but I learned a lot, and frankly, I think WifiDog is one of the best
> multi-purpose tools out there. Unfortunately, multi-purpose tools tend to be
> fairly complex and difficult to ramp up on...)
>
>
> Anyway - I must say, I'm impressed with the WD group here. The
> documentation is thin, as it is on many GPL/Opensource projects, but the
> list-serv is populated by a lot of you that want to help. Thanks, a lot!!
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> I'll do what I can to help on the documentation side - at least to help
> someone duplicate what I've done and overcome some of the issues I've
> encountered. (I've already edited the Wiki to help on the PG security issue
> that many of us encounter.)
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> Thanks again!
>
> -Greg
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> You may want to look at this tutorial.
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> http://www.howtoforge.com/wifi_hotspot_setup
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> It uses Radius + DD-WRT firmware with chillispot and user management
> software called phpMyPrepaid. I tested this set during summer and it might
> be a good solution for your need.
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> V Patel
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