2015-05-28 - Re: [GRASE-Hotspot] Nightly Changes

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From: Timothy White <ti***8@gmail.com>
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Reply To: <CAGUY4fzebYruTtZGVECiBxNmn5bPSVV3pyY3e-13kF9_xSY7FQ@mail.gmail.com>
UTC Datetime: 2015-05-28 20:36:11 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 13:36:11 +1000

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I think nightly grase-www-portal-3.7.7.11.383.g6d8914e should have the
login bug fixed as well. I found a bug in the code that handles a corner
case incorrectly. Please let me know if you still have login issues.

Regards

Tim

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Edward Allen <yb***j@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok points taken
>
>
> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Timothy White <ti***8@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:23 AM, Edward Allen <yb***j@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Tim before we go stable there is this one issue sometimes the user has
>>> to continuously press login in order to get authentication.  I think it is
>>> related to the way php encrypts the password before posting the request.
>>> I've encountered this issue before whilst login in on some Dell
>>> powerconnect 2724 switches, usually I had to use an older version of ie on
>>> a slower pc for it to work.
>>>
>>> When I look at radcheck table I see where each attempt is made and on
>>> each attempt the crypto password is different.
>>>
>>
>> It would be good to get more information on this. Unfortunately, without
>> being able to reproduce this, it's hard to know what the problem is. I'll
>> try some tweaking. It's a CHAP challenge response, so maybe the challenge
>> is expiring too soon? I'll adjust how that works to try and minimise
>> expired challenges.
>>
>>
>>> Another issue, I realize that computer accounts get authenticated at
>>> dhcp time. Is it possible to add additional check points for their
>>> authentication?
>>> The problem is sometimes when I add a computer account that device is
>>> already connected to the system so they have to disconnect then reconnect.
>>>
>> Unfortunately this is part of the coova-chilli project. MAC
>> authentication (computer accounts) happens at DHCP time. There are ways we
>> can manually "login" a computer account, but it's a pain, especially if you
>> want the session limits to apply. I find the easiest way to handle this is
>> give people a once off voucher for a few hours, and then create the
>> computer account for them. Most people have disconnected and reconnected
>> before the voucher expires.
>>
>>> Secondly if I create a few static clients then that causes another
>>> headache.  In addition if the system restarts then clients who were
>>> previously connected will have to reconnect to have service, this is a
>>> serious pain in areas where you've got IP cameras and similar devices.
>>>
>>
>> The only solution for this, is to setup proper "static" clients. I'll
>> look at the code changes for this, but probably not for this release.
>> https://github.com/GraseHotspot/grase-www-portal/issues/115
>> Again, this is something that relies heavily on the coova-chilli part of
>> the project, so we probably need to work with what's available to us from
>> them.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
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