Best practice for a captive portal without a password?

[Anonymous]

What's the best practice for setting up a captive portal login page without password? I'm already using the guestpass generating features so can't simultaneously set up a guest login page without authentication using the 'out of the box features' .

So I'm setting up hotspot services to redirect to a page where users can simply tick 'I accept the T&Cs' and be on their way (The reason for this is the different SSIDs can get to different network resources).

I can make a login page that simply uses a limited user's credentials to login but this feels wrong - surely there must be a better way to do this?

cheers
Bernard

[alex_ortmanns]

Hi Bernard,

Take a look here, I suggest creating a hotspot service, usign a portal page that shows a accept t&c button that will post a general login (username=user & password=user) to the zd.

http://docs.globaltele.com.ua/files/R... Docs/WISPr/WISPR_app_note_finaledit2.pdf

[alex_ortmanns]

Example

add user 'user' to the local db





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[Anonymous]

Hello i'm starting to do a captive portal i'm following you example but i'm struggling with the authentication part. Can you help me? first of all i don't have the ZD in the same lan, neither the web-server, all have public ip's, i thing the problem is in the Post method, i already changed to https but .. nothing.

[Anonymous]

Hi Alex,

That's great - thank you. I ended up doing almost exactly that and confirmed with ruckus support that this a recommended way to do it. Something in me just didn't like the hidden username/password. Also the timeout for users is based on MAC so sharing a username doesn't change the timeout settings 🙂

Cheers!

Bernard