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

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      michel2013
      last edited by

      Thank you very much for your tutorial.

      Got it working. Still missing some functionality but I guess I have to read the correct manuals.

      a question for example:
      How do you see who is online, and how to disable or throw them out?

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        almomdegal
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        I can´t figure out how to access phpmyadmin so i can proceed with step 2 "add for sql support"
        probably a silly question but how can i

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          Prakash
          last edited by

          Hi EveryOne,
          Thanks to Khan,
          I'm very much new to pfSense.
          But I've Experimented your VMImage.
          The Following Feature I've Implemented in Captive Portal.
          1. Self Registration By User, The User Id is user's Mobile No.
          2. System Generates the Password & Send to Registered Mobile No as SMS.( I prefer to use Mobile No as User may not be able to access Email).

          I request to all for the guidance to implement following feature:
          1. How the Validity of the Password can be Control.
          2. System Logout Popup Window is not Open.
          3. can Both Voucher & Radius Authentication Implemented at a time.
          4. Is there any process to send user the Voucher No.
          5. Is there any process to extend the validity of voucher/password.

          Thanks in advance.
          Prakash

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            harshkukreja
            last edited by

            Hi! Khan

            Thanks for your wonderful work which I was looking for a long time to add into my pfsense machine which I am using for providing Internet access to students in university. I ll really appreciate if you can help me with the working VMware image to enable me to test the same.

            Regards

            Harsh
            harshkukreja2008@gmail.com

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              Kababayan
              last edited by

              Hi Khan,
              Tnx for your How to .. It workd perfectly on VM pfsense 2.1 with external sql from WAMP package. I just added some previlages to radius user to be able to write the whole sql, also replace email as login with username as login. I would like to add some time limit and session timout for this users how can i add it to the sql in order to successfully get accounting.

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                Kababayan
                last edited by

                I was able to add time limit (Max-Forever-Session := xxxx sec)  to the users registered in captiveportal-cp_registration_form.php however Session-Timeout := xxx does not work. Just wanted those free users to force logout ever 5 min with 1 hour free time.

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                  Nachtfalke
                  last edited by

                  @Kababayan:

                  I was able to add time limit (Max-Forever-Session := xxxx sec)  to the users registered in captiveportal-cp_registration_form.php however Session-Timeout := xxx does not work. Just wanted those free users to force logout ever 5 min with 1 hour free time.

                  Did you enable session-timeout on CP GUI?

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                    Kababayan
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                    @Nachtfalke:

                    Did you enable session-timeout on CP GUI?

                    Yes I did check Session-Timeout(se RADIUS Session-Timeout attributes). I'll try to remove it and see what will happen.

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                      Kababayan
                      last edited by

                      Okey it's working now. Time limit goes to radcheck while session timeout and idle time should go to radreply.
                      In CP check Session Timeout. I use interim update. Tried checking and unchecking in CP's  Reauthenticate connected users every minute both are working fine with Interim, haven't tested in Stop/start yet.
                      I will test other setting like Bandwidth-Max-Up/Down, Simultaneous-Use, Amount of Download and Upload Traffic.

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                        cesarserafim
                        last edited by

                        @Kababayan:

                        Okey it's working now. Time limit goes to radcheck while session timeout and idle time should go to radreply.
                        In CP check Session Timeout. I use interim update. Tried checking and unchecking in CP's  Reauthenticate connected users every minute both are working fine with Interim, haven't tested in Stop/start yet.
                        I will test other setting like Bandwidth-Max-Up/Down, Simultaneous-Use, Amount of Download and Upload Traffic.

                        Hi Kababayan!
                        Did you have sucess?
                        I have about 3000 users working fine on pf213x64, thanks for all in this topic (and others too).
                        My only problem is with Max-Daily-Session, i can´t make it work!
                        i´m disconected after time, but i can relogin. I Think because is the timeout function only, not a max-daily-session.
                        In radius db, only the tables radcheck,radgroupcheck, radpostauth, radusergroup and reg_user have data, the others have nothing, is normal?

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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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