Captive Portal with Radius Authentication

xphat · Nov 22, 2005, 4:20 PM

Hello All,

Im a little new to Radius however i want to setup captive portal with radius authentication for some wireless users.. with radius running on a seperate machine with usernames and passwords stored preferably in a database. On the other machine what kinda setup will i need to have interms of applications.

i was thinking of using freeradius on the remote box. What else am i going to need… other than say.. a Mysql database. ???

Any help will be greatly appreciated. ;D

sullrich · Nov 22, 2005, 4:37 PM

@xphat:

Hello All,

Im a little new to Radius however i want to setup captive portal with radius authentication for some wireless users.. with radius running on a seperate machine with usernames and passwords stored preferably in a database. On the other machine what kinda setup will i need to have interms of applications.

i was thinking of using freeradius on the remote box. What else am i going to need… other than say.. a Mysql database. ???

Any help will be greatly appreciated. ;D

Take a look at http://www.pfsense.com/mirror.php?section=tutorials/cp_config/radius_win2k3.htm

xphat · Nov 22, 2005, 5:12 PM

Very Nice Tutorial There..

Ill now go and start messing with Win2k3 radius

Thanks a Mill!

xphat · Nov 22, 2005, 6:18 PM

Is it possible with windows authentication to have a user that can only login for a specific amount of time.
I know that i can set the login hours but is there a way to limit the amount of time that the user can login so say…
User logs can login for an hour
-> user Auth Successful
-> User log in for 30 mins
-> User Disconnects
-> User successfully logs in for another 30 minutes
-> User Disconnects
-> User tries to get in again... Error!

hoba · Dec 12, 2005, 9:04 PM

I haven't looked in depth into this one but know it's working with pfSense as I have been testing radius-issues with it in the past: ftp://ftp.multitech.com/mts-software/rasexpress/radius201.exe
This one should support timebased logins/rejects (from what I've seen). It's free and runs as Service under Windows. If you find out anything share it with us ;)

xphat · Nov 23, 2005, 12:10 AM

Will check it out :)

Thanks ;D

xphat · Nov 23, 2005, 3:41 AM

What are the RADIUS Attributes that are supported by Pfsense?

moo · Dec 12, 2005, 5:09 PM

@xphat:

What are the RADIUS Attributes that are supported by Pfsense?

yup, I would like to know that too.

sullrich · Dec 12, 2005, 5:13 PM

We basically have m0n0wall's 1.2 version of Captive Portal. So whatever it supports.

Perhaps searching the m0n0wall archives will help with this.

wjoyce · Jan 8, 2006, 9:42 PM

I can never seem to get that tutorial (radius_win2k3.htm) off of any of the mirrors. What gives?

@sullrich:

@xphat:

Hello All,

Im a little new to Radius however i want to setup captive portal with radius authentication for some wireless users.. with radius running on a seperate machine with usernames and passwords stored preferably in a database. On the other machine what kinda setup will i need to have interms of applications.

i was thinking of using freeradius on the remote box. What else am i going to need… other than say.. a Mysql database. ???

Any help will be greatly appreciated. ;D

Take a look at http://www.pfsense.com/mirror.php?section=tutorials/cp_config/radius_win2k3.htm

jeroen234 · Jan 8, 2006, 9:48 PM

you need shockwave-flash to watch that tutorial
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

wjoyce · Jan 8, 2006, 10:05 PM

Ahh, thanks for the heads up. I browsed to http://pfsense.er33t.net/tutorials/cp_config/ and I will download the .sfw manually so I can track the download progress. I couldn't imagine why a html file took so long to d/led!