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    How to Captive Portal Self Registration Using Free radius & Mysql (Tutorial)

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      dimoz
      last edited by

      Hi.
      I have configured pfsense + captiveportal + freeradius + mysql + vhosts.
      i would like to permit users to change their own password through a web page stored in pfsense.

      i have created a table in "radius" db named "resetpsw" with 2 column: "username" and "reset". every user in "radcheck" table has a record in this table with the corresponding username and a "reset" value set to "0" or to "1" to force him to reset the password. (I manually change the value in the db to force him to reimputate a new password)

      My problem now is to insert the correct code in the captiveportal login page to check, before authenticate him, if the username has the "reset" value to "1" and redirect him to the reset password page.
      Any suggestions?

      thanks

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        sbb
        last edited by

        @khan:

        Caution : this procedure was perfect for me. Please use at your own risk & make backup.

        You need few thing to do this

        step 3

        now rename every file & remove “.txt” from file name ie

        captiveportal-cp_reg_suc.php.txt to captiveportal-cp_reg_suc.php
        captiveportal-bootstrap.min.css.txt to captiveportal-bootstrap.min.css

        and so …

        now edit
        captiveportal-cp_reg_suc.php in line 104 insert your sql server ipaddress & password.

        Upload evry file in captive file manager except
        cp_portal.php
        cp_error.php

        Hi,

        I don't know how to access the files mentioned in step 3. Where can I find those files?

        Thanks
        sbb

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          sbb
          last edited by

          @sbb:

          @khan:

          Caution : this procedure was perfect for me. Please use at your own risk & make backup.

          You need few thing to do this

          step 3

          now rename every file & remove “.txt” from file name ie

          captiveportal-cp_reg_suc.php.txt to captiveportal-cp_reg_suc.php
          captiveportal-bootstrap.min.css.txt to captiveportal-bootstrap.min.css

          and so …

          now edit
          captiveportal-cp_reg_suc.php in line 104 insert your sql server ipaddress & password.

          Upload evry file in captive file manager except
          cp_portal.php
          cp_error.php

          Hi,

          I don't know how to access the files mentioned in step 3. Where can I find those files?

          Thanks
          sbb

          …just saw I can download the files. Wasn't logged in so i couldn't see them.

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            gbrace
            last edited by

            Hi Guys,

            i was introduced to pfsense by a friend of mine a few months ago and it resulted very helpfull and an awesome system.
            I have checked this post because i have a project same as the subject in this post.
            As most of you, i am trying to implement this VM posted in here. As i tested it i saw the captive portal site for self-registration and i am trying to make it a little bit different from the configuration done till now.
            What i'm lookin for is a self-registration with sms, a user can just put his phone number and name in the captive portal and the system after recieving this number it has to generate a password ( perhaps with voucher ) and send that code to the user to get access in internet. I want this because i have seen that most of the people that uses free wifi with self-registration puts fake informations at the captive portal so with the SMS i can minimize this fake users with fake ID's .
            If any one has an idea please provide some cause i'm stuck at the auto-generation codes after recieving phone number.
            Oh as for the implementation posted in here i'll finish testing it and for sure i'll give a feedback.

            Thanks in Advanced.

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              Ivart
              last edited by

              Hello everybody,
              Do you have any solution for freeradius2 not working on pfSense 2.2? I can't upgrade my clients to 2.2 without captive portal working with freeradius2 + mysql

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                ebarriosjr
                last edited by

                Hello all,

                i am triying to follow this tutorial but now in version 2.2 the command pkg_info -r http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/8.1-RELEASE/packages/All/php52-mysql-5.2.13_3.tbz does not work. I now that now pfsense is using a new version of freebsd. Does anyone have successfully installed this Portal + Mysql in the new version? Does anyone knows how to do it?

                Thanks!

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                  Crow
                  last edited by

                  Please help me on how to install phpMyadmin on pfsense ;D :-X

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                    Crow
                    last edited by

                    How can we start phpmyadmin?

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                      keKlock
                      last edited by

                      Is there an updated guide for this setup in pfSense 2.2.4 amd64 installation?

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                        josepgb
                        last edited by

                        It will just work on latest pfsense 2.3 Beta, in the previous 2.2.x versions, package php5x-mysql breaks pfsense.

                        Latest beta uses nginx and has embedded php56-mysql activated, so you just have to install freedradius. I recommend to install mysql and phpmyadmin in a external server.

                        What I did is to get the Khan's vitualbox machine, start it and save a backup config file. I also exported the radius database preent on the local virtualbox image using the embeded phpmyadmin installed on that virtual machine.

                        Then load the backup xml file to the 2.3 beta amd64 pfsense version, change the ip of the mysql server in the captiveportal-cp_reg_suc.php file code to point your new mysql server, and import the radius table on that server, granting permissions to the user root pass pfsense.

                        Go to freeradius admin section on pfsense and in mysql change the ip of the sql server to your external one. And voila, it will work in the latest pfsense version. Took me few days to get it working!

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                          nimamhd
                          last edited by

                          If you have issue with empty "reg_users" table on pfsense 2.3.1, it`s resolve by changing "phone_number" column type from "INT" to " BIGINT".

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                            pama
                            last edited by

                            Thanks all,
                            I have used this guide and make it working on my PFSense 2.3.2 adding squid/squidguard http/https filtering and limiting bandwidth to dhcp assigned clients.
                            Did someone tested the solution with SMS authorization code?
                            Thank you,

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                              vinod saud
                              last edited by

                              @khan:

                              Captive Portal Self Registration Using Free radius & Mysql Tested with 2.0.2-RELEASE (i386) built on Fri Dec 7 16:30:14 EST 2012 in vmware 8.

                              Caution : this procedure was perfect for me. Please use at your own risk & make backup.

                              You need few thing to do this

                              1. php-mysql support in pfsense. Default is disabled. follow this post to do it

                              http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,47150.0.html

                              your command should be

                              pkg_info -r http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/8.1-RELEASE/packages/All/php52-mysql-5.2.13_3.tbz

                              and

                              pkg_add -rfi http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/8.1-RELEASE/packages/All/php52-mysql-5.2.13_3.tbz

                              tips: according to his (sash99) post some package dependencies should occur. But I did not found 1. what I did..

                              1. in command added package with

                              pkg_add -rfi http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/8.1-RELEASE/packages/All/php52-mysql-5.2.13_3.tbz

                              1. in command

                              /etc/rc.php_ini_setup

                              1. installed freeradius2 package from system/package
                              2. rebooted pfsense
                              3. in command

                              touch /etc/php_dynamodules/php52-mysql

                              1. rebooted pfsense.

                              Step 2
                              Config pfsense freeradius according to this doc
                              http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/FreeRADIUS_2.x_package
                              and for sql  support
                              http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,43675.msg235475.html#msg235475
                              add extra table using reg_users.sql.txt file sql command or u can rename this to reg_users.sql and import via phpmyadmin

                              I hav added database file  also.

                              step 3

                              now rename every file & remove “.txt” from file name ie

                              captiveportal-cp_reg_suc.php.txt to captiveportal-cp_reg_suc.php
                              captiveportal-bootstrap.min.css.txt to captiveportal-bootstrap.min.css

                              and so …

                              now edit
                              captiveportal-cp_reg_suc.php in line 104 insert your sql server ipaddress & password.

                              Upload evry file in captive file manager except
                              cp_portal.php
                              cp_error.php

                              in captive portal main page
                              enable captive portal in Lan
                              check Disable concurrent logins
                              in Authentication section
                              check RADIUS Authentication
                              in ipaddress box –----------- 127.0.0.1
                              port box ----------- 1812
                              sharedsecret box -----------your shared secret
                              in Accounting check send RADIUS accounting packets
                              in port ----------- 1813
                              Accounting updates ----- check strat stop
                              In RADIUS NAS IP attribute select your lan.

                              insert cp_portal.php in “Portal page contents”
                              cp_error.php in “Authentication error page contents”.
                              Save. And you are ready to go.

                              Important
                              1. you should change php file content according to your need.

                              2. be aware about adding php-mysql package you may not be lucky as i was. if anything goes wrong follow "sash99" post carefully.

                              3. in my captive portal page i have some security like a client with a mac address can only register one account.

                              please let me know your experiences.

                              Hi  please provide with explanation and provide any link if you have create any document because i am new learner pfsense .

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