2020-08-26 - Re: [GRASE-Hotspot] Grase V4 First Run Wizard

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From: Tim <ti***8@gmail.com>
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UTC Datetime: 2020-08-26 06:25:16 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 21:25:16 +0800

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Hi Christopher

Sorry for the delay.

I've not written the interface for adding Mac devices yet. However, they
are actually normal accounts with a few special features. First, the
username is the Mac address (all caps, separated by -, e.g.
AA-10-BB-A8-CC-D2). The password is stored in the radreply table, there
should be a row similar to:
CoovaChilli, ChilliSpot-Config, +=, macpasswd=password
This will give you the mac password that you can use for your mac accounts.
I know that's not a convenient way to manage mac accounts, but it's
passable once you have that password. (And if you're taking the existing
database from V3 and upgrading it, then all the existing mac accounts will
be there, and you can just view them to get the password).

There have been major upgrades to Freeradius, hopefully that's what you're
looking for.

The many things missing in V4 atm are a nice interface for computer
accounts, bulk users, admin user management, reports. The basics of
adding/creating/modifying users/groups all work, and for /most/ settings
you can use the advanced settings page to change anything (other than
CoovaChilli database settings).

I hope that gives you some idea of the current state of things.

Regards

Tim

On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 at 16:13, Christopher Gregory <
ch***y@mail.com> wrote:

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> Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2020 at 8:17 PM
> From: "Tim" <ti***8@gmail.com>
> To: gr***t@grasehotspot.org
> Subject: [GRASE-Hotspot] Grase V4 First Run Wizard
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> Hey All
>
> I know it's been a while, but we are continuing to plod along.
>
> At this stage, I expect V4 nightly builds to be useable for basic use. I
> have completed a first-run wizard that you need to run for the initial
> setup.
>
> It is important to note that we no longer ship with a default
> username/password. You will need to run the first-run wizard to set the
> initial admin password. This can also be rerun later on to force a password
> reset.
>
> I have written up the instructions at
> https://grasehotspot.org/documentation/v4-nightly-builds/ for getting
> started and how to run the first-run wizard. If you already have V4
> packages installed, you and just "apt upgrade" and then run the first-run
> wizard.
>
> It would be really appreciated if people can start testing it, as it's
> hard for me to make sure there are no show stopper bugs when I don't have
> any places this is running in public.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
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> Hello Tim,
>
> I would appreciate some clarification on "basic use".  Reason I ask is
> that I am planning to upgrade the backpackers server in the next couple of
> weeks, and I would be more than willing to upgrade grase at the same time
> providing that the following is actually working at this time:
>
> 1) I need mac address authentication to be working as the property owner
> has a solar battery bank that is also connected into the mains that has a
> wifi card in it for monitoring purposes.
>
> 2) Have you upgraded the radius package yet?
>
>
> So yeah, it is really the mac address that is absolutely essential to me,
> along with being able to add the usernames/passwords.  There are many
> different devices used here, laptops and various phones along with googles
> chrome cast device, so this would be a really good testing bed if it is up
> to this level already.  I do not care if things such as log files and nice
> to have extras are not available.
>
> My thoughts are that I will keep the existing hard drive so that I can
> switch back to it if the new hotspot proves too problematic.  I am getting
> an M.2 drive for the new server so that in the event of a power failure the
> system will be back online again in a very short amount of time.  The
> current hardware is a number of years old now, so the upgrade is past due.
>
> Regards,
>
> Christopher.
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