Captive portal manual Logout

[sine_kitt]

Hi i want to know , is there a way that users can manually logout from captive portal..users get logout popup window once they authenticated with CP…but imagine if they accidentally closed that page..what shall we do then...i closed the connection to CP for that user on status --> captive portal.....but after that user wont get any captive portal authentication page till i restart the service from pfsense...

[doktornotor]

There're these idle/forced disconnect features in CP. Dunno how many users you imagine to get your logout pop-up, I can imagine pretty much none – since popups are blocked by any decent browser out there.

[Gertjan]

@sine_kitt:

Hi i want to know , is there a way that users can manually logout from captive portal..users get logout popup window once they authenticated with CP…but imagine if they accidentally closed that page..what shall we do then...i closed the connection to CP for that user on status --> captive portal.....but after that user wont get any captive portal authentication page till i restart the service from pfsense...

What about setting the idle-time out to 5 minutes ?
If users come back within 5 minutes, they have access to the net because their device is still on the "permitted list".
If they come in later then 5 minutes, they WILL have the auth page again.

Their is no real need to have people being logout out by themselves. Every minute the list with logged in clients is purged if needed (timed out).
You control the time out.

You can see (test) so by watching the portal log and captive portal status page.