[HOWTO] Captive portal + FreeRADIUS + local MySQL user friendly single step

deajan · Jul 21, 2016, 5:50 PM

@nhimcoi30889 This captive portal isn't supposed to work that way. It's an "no account setup" portal page.

If you want to use it the way you describe, you should create the radius accounts you want with the confirmation code as password, and remove the part where the radius account is created from the main CP file.

nhimcoi30889 · Jul 22, 2016, 12:15 AM

Hi Deajan,
I can to create account on Radius with format email address ?
For example : test@abc.com

deajan · Jul 22, 2016, 7:56 AM

@nhimcoi30889 Sorry but your sentence makes no sense to me. If your question was if radius supports emails as usernames, the answer is yes.

nhimcoi30889 · Jul 29, 2016, 12:29 AM

HI deajan,
today i just upgrade from 2.2.6 to 2.3.1 Release
After upgraded, i start mysql againt but show error :

[2.3.1-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.it.mt]/root: service mysql-server.sh start
Starting mysql.
Bad -c option
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh: WARNING: failed to start mysql

Can u help me?

deajan · Jul 29, 2016, 9:34 AM

Upgrades in 2.2.X are destructive for MySQL installation because they basically reinstalls a full OS.
Only 2.3.X upgrade series won't destroy anything because they work fine grained.

In order to get things working again, you have to uninstall and reinstall mysql. Keep in mind that directions to install mysql for 2.3.x aren't the same as for 2.2.x.

nhimcoi30889 · Jul 30, 2016, 2:30 AM

Hi Deajan,
I tried remove old mysql and reinstall new version but problem the same
Can you give solution ?

nhimcoi30889 · Jul 31, 2016, 3:04 PM

Hi deajan,
can you help me ?

deajan · Aug 4, 2016, 6:49 PM

How am I supposed to know what happens with your setup without even knowing what you did to uninstall / reinstall mysql ?

nhimcoi30889 · Aug 10, 2016, 10:28 AM

Hi Deajan,
Do you try with pfsense 2.3.2 ?
I tried , the first it working normally
But after reboot mysql not working, and FreeRadius2 dont working
This is log when i start FreeRadius2

Aug 10 17:14:04	radiusd	57335	rlm_sql (sql): Driver rlm_sql_mysql (module rlm_sql_mysql) loaded and linked
Aug 10 17:14:04	radiusd	57335	rlm_sql (sql): Attempting to connect to radius@127.0.0.1:3306/radius
Aug 10 17:14:04	radiusd	57335	rlm_sql (sql): Attempting to connect rlm_sql_mysql #0
Aug 10 17:14:04	radiusd	57335	rlm_sql_mysql: Starting connect to MySQL server for #0
Aug 10 17:15:19	radiusd	57335	rlm_sql_mysql: Couldn't connect socket to MySQL server radius@127.0.0.1:radius
Aug 10 17:15:19	radiusd	57335	rlm_sql_mysql: Mysql error 'Can't connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (60)'
Aug 10 17:15:19	radiusd	57335	rlm_sql (sql): Failed to connect DB handle #0
Aug 10 17:15:19	radiusd	57335	rlm_sql (sql): There are no DB handles to use! skipped 5, tried to connect 0
Aug 10 17:15:19	radiusd	57335	Failed to load clients from SQL.
Aug 10 17:15:19	radiusd	57335	rlm_sql (sql): Closing sqlsocket 4
Aug 10 17:15:19	radiusd	57335	rlm_sql (sql): Closing sqlsocket 3
Aug 10 17:15:19	radiusd	57335	rlm_sql (sql): Closing sqlsocket 2
Aug 10 17:15:19	radiusd	57335	rlm_sql (sql): Closing sqlsocket 1
Aug 10 17:15:19	radiusd	57335	rlm_sql (sql): Closing sqlsocket 0
Aug 10 17:15:19	radiusd	57335	/usr/local/etc/raddb/sql.conf[2]: Instantiation failed for module "sql"
Aug 10 17:15:19	radiusd	57335	/usr/local/etc/raddb/sites-enabled/default[185]: Failed to find "sql" in the "modules" section.
Aug 10 17:15:19	radiusd	57335	/usr/local/etc/raddb/sites-enabled/default[185]: Failed to parse "sql" entry.
Aug 10 17:15:19	radiusd	57335	/usr/local/etc/raddb/sites-enabled/default[69]: Errors parsing authorize section.
Aug 10 17:15:19	radiusd	57335	Failed to load virtual server <default></default>

This is error when connect mysql

ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

I tried add manual file my.cnf to /usr/local/etc/mysql/my.cnf but dont working
Can you give some recomment ?
Tks bro

caraffandee · Aug 11, 2016, 8:25 PM

Hi Deajan.
Firstly a big thank for this great howto. Detailed and comprehensive.
Now, I apologize, I'm a newbee about pfSense (although an experienced Linux/PHP/DB/ecc. programmer), so my question might be trivial.
The network I'm trying to setup with your captive portal feature has a router (Zyxel) with REDIUS support. The router is also configured to act as DHCP server for my local network. Actually my pfSense machine/installation will be used ONLY for RADIUS/CaptivePortal authentication. In other words, my pfSense installation is configured in "appliance" mode, i.e. with the only one eth interface (WAN) enabled. I've configured the router to assign a static IP to my pfSense server.
The point now is this. When I create a CP zone in the WebConfigurator, at the bottom of the page I read the following hint:

Don't forget to enable the DHCP server on the captive portal interface! Make sure that the default/maximum DHCP lease time is higher than the hard timeout entered on this page. Also, the DNS Forwarder or Resolver must be enabled for DNS lookups by unauthenticated clients to work.

What about the DHCP server on the CP interface? Do I need to disable the router's DHCP server, in order to have pfSense assign all the mess, or is there another way to configure the DNS resolver?
Thanks again for the great howto and any suggestion you'll give.

deajan · Aug 31, 2016, 3:28 PM

Sorry for the late reply.
As long as the DNS is pfSense, I think you can use whatever DHCP server you like.

deajan · Aug 31, 2016, 3:29 PM

@nhimcoi30889

I'm pretty sure that you have two instances of mysql running. Check with ps aux.

astatine · Oct 12, 2016, 8:57 AM

Hi deajan,

First thank you very much for this perfect HOWTO.

But I got a problem when i import the admin.sql script. Please have a look below:

 mysql radius < admin.sql
ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 31: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'PRIVIELGES' at line 1

Do you have any idea how to fix it? I am running a brand new pfsense 2.3 on a PC. Thank you in advance.

deajan · Oct 12, 2016, 10:08 AM

There was a typo in admin.sql, should read PRIVILEGES and not PRIVIELGES.
Corrected on github. You may redownload the latest archive at https://github.com/deajan/pfSense-cp-auth-onestep/archive/master.zip

astatine · Oct 12, 2016, 2:05 PM

@deajan:

There was a typo in admin.sql, should read PRIVILEGES and not PRIVIELGES.
Corrected on github. You may redownload the latest archive at https://github.com/deajan/pfSense-cp-auth-onestep/archive/master.zip

Merci!!! Problem solved!!

xAm56 · Oct 27, 2016, 1:42 PM

Hello deajan,

First thank you a lot for your work, the system works great !

I try to use your template only with the "room number" field to log in on the portal.

I successfully disable the others fields (familyName, surName, emailAddress and newsletter) but when i validate the form, I've a blank page.

However, I pass the portal and I can access to the web but the result is not very clean

Could you please explain me which modifications I have to make in ozy-captive.php and perhaps in captiveportal-config.php .

Thanks in advance !

deajan · Oct 29, 2016, 1:03 PM

Hello xAm56,

As far as I remember, the username is a combination of emailAdress and roomNumber and password is a combination of familyName and surName, in order to get some degree of randomness.
Basically, only using room number would mean that Radius records would not be unique.

I'll have a to push an update until monday which adds the language parameter in the url.
I'll try to check your usecase in the same time.

Regards,
Orsiris.

deajan · Oct 30, 2016, 9:19 AM

Have a look at the latest commits on github at https://github.com/deajan/pfSense-cp-auth-onestep/releases/tag/v0.44

saygon · Nov 1, 2016, 4:54 PM

Hi @deajan and thank you for your amazing work!

Unfortunately I'm not able to run mysql server.
I have made a clean install of pfSense 2.3, configured wan and lan, internet works. I'm also able to install all what do you mentioned on this guide.
Each time I try start mysql server it comes some error:


[2.3.2-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.localdomain]/root: service mysql-server.sh start
Starting mysql.
Bad -c option
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh: WARNING: failed to start mysql

I have already research on Google regarding to this error, but don't found nothing useful.
Please let me know if you need some additional info or log output.

deajan · Nov 1, 2016, 8:50 PM

@saygon I remember having dealt with that error while developping this project.
Don't remember the exact root cause… probably a bad mysql version installed.

Remove and reinstall the version corresponding to your setup.
If the problem still occurs, post the content of your mysql_server.sh file, and mysql -v output.