2015-10-04 - Re: [GRASE-Hotspot] Re: User cookie - remember

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From: Timothy White <ti***8@gmail.com>
Message Hash: 5a19b5e64d912ff52d3d0173501c87ee1e1893619b622f70e5b23cb0ff64a4da
Message ID: <CAESLx0KtAhJL384Hdnq37tuoJ_cXDLRAJZbafFxkKJa1ao5Lzw@mail.gmail.com>
Reply To: <f5ffd0fb-d3e6-42f0-b413-e53ee9b773f0@grasehotspot.org>
UTC Datetime: 2015-10-04 14:22:24 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 07:22:24 +1000

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As I said Eliot. This is an issue of the session timing out. You'll need to
increase the session timeout (and then restart the hotspot to ensure it's
taken effect).

For most use cases, you don't want a hotspot to remember a user after they
have walked away. If the user is a regular, then maybe a machine account is
more appropriate. Idle timeout is to ensure that if a user has a time based
voucher (i.e. for 10 hours), and walk away from the hotspot, it logs them
out instead of continuing to count down the time while they are away from
the hotspot.

Cookie based remembering is a little difficult, because we do an initial
"login" with the users MAC address, for machine accounts. It's not until
the user is at the login screen can we even see a cookie we have set. For
most cases were you want to remember a user, machine accounts are the
sensible option.

Tim

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 6:58 AM, Eliot Ness <sc***7@googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Tim, nightly build tested on...
> With an android xperia and 10 days expire voucher example, after a long
> time of disconnect from hotspot ( 2-3 hours ) then it asks again to login.
> No kind of cookie to login again, just empty login and pass to re-login....
> I got a commercial hotspot that is based on openwrt and never ever ask you
> again to login since you give out voucher. ( I can send it to investigate
> if interested )
> Also another solution of easyhotspot ( too old now but with mods works ok
> ) send a cookie that you have to accept to remember user login
> Grase is awesome, but forget - loose user.
>
>
>
> On Saturday, October 3, 2015 at 3:54:54 PM UTC+3, Eliot Ness wrote:
>>
>> Back again and new install on 14.04 srv and this time nightly build on
>> test.
>>
>> Nice new addons, but i wanna ask:
>> Is there any choice to remember user? What i mean for example you create
>> a voucher to expire in 10 days.
>> But when user go away from your network, and return back after 1 - 2
>> hours login screen come up again.
>> It will be great to re-activate without have to login again
>>
>> The only choice to not ask for login i find is by"computer account" mac
>> adr. but this is not what i look for.
>>
>> Anybody find something how to?
>>
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