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Hi,
Are there are self-contained httpd/cgi hotspot apps that keep the whole thing on the wrt, and verify users against a flat file ?
iptables redirect to http cgi
login , alter iptables
Been using wifidog as a captive portal, so perhaps could have that call an onboard cgi auth server.
Ian
To what reason would you like to that?
If you just wanna show a splash page take nocatsplash ...
If you wanna have a hotspot network with more advanced features (ie. to manage captive portal content) there is no other way but using a public auth server ...
Yes people have been fiddling with this off and on for several years. Most people try the hotspot-in-1-box then run into the limits of the box and go back to a distributed system. It's quite difficult to get all the pieces running well in a tiny router with it's very limited resources. RADIUS is one of the frequent complaints, it runs multiple processes and was designed running on a full OS and serving hundreds of users on dialup servers, and supports many attributes that you don't need for a hotspot. RADIUS is too fat, but no one has sat down to do a "light" version so far as I know. Alternative would be coding your hotspot to use a flat-file for authentication.
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