Did you check https://redmine.pfsense.org/ for an open ticket which addresses that and if not - open a ticket?
But probably the developers are now focused on pfsense 2.1
ok :) the problem is that I don't how to program it. Which language? bash?
another way…is it possibile to open the users db and insert it directly?
it should be more simple if possible.
Just to follow up, it was not the captive portal blocking webmail but the hosting company blocking traffic from the IP attached to the pfsense machine. Weird. They claimed too many unsuccessful login attempts to an email account.
Check the system, dhcp, and portal auth logs to see if there are any messages/errors at the time of the redirect.
Sometimes that can happen if you have the portal's hard timeout set longer than the DHCP lease time and it can't properly re-use the sessions.
You should not just "view source" of the portal page, edit it, and then upload it. In doing so, the page loses some important internal macros. You should edit the original modified source, or attempt to "fix" the tags that were lost. See the sample code for a default portal page to see what those are, things like
<form method="post" action="$PORTAL_ACTION$">
and
and other such things that may have been used.</form>
@ermal:
It is better to use the php commands to do the disable rather than the not correct shell commands provided here.
Take a look at what happens when you click enable/disable button on the CP configuration page.
Another easy way to do it would be tojust leave captive portal running and insert/remove a rule (using the IPFW command) to skip the portal rules.
another thing to check: if your external database is on a hosted server, make sure that you are allowing connections from your pfsense IP address. e.g. in Control Panel (on your hosted server) go to Databases -> RemoteMySQL and enter the allowed host IP or domain name
Yes, you have to manually edit the values in /etc/inc/radius.inc. They're easy enough to spot - if you're not comfortable with command-line just use Diagnostics > Edit file.
Look for a line like the following…
function addServer($servername = 'localhost', $port = 0, $sharedSecret = 'testing123', $timeout = 3, $maxtries = 2)
I've not yet got to the bottom of my problem - increasing the timeouts has not fixed it for me. Unfortunately I've had little time to look into it further, and it's always in use so access is tricky.
Hello,
We are currently running version pfSense-2.0.1-RELASE (which does have the "no authentication" radio button),,,,but more,,, wanted a "TOS" or "disclaimer" to be displayed to our likeing, which wallabybob,,supplied.
thanks,
Barry
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