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

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From: Christopher Gregory <ch***y@mail.com>
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UTC Datetime: 2020-08-26 09:58:49 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 18:58:49 +0200

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Hello Tim,

Thanks for the reply.  

It was where the password got presented that I needed to know, as I had already figured that the username is just the mac address. As it happens, it was good timing on your part to answer this now, as I had tried the server hardware upgrade this morning, and found out that I only had pci ethernet cards in the old server, and the new motherboard only has pci-express slots, so the upgrade has been delayed until the new card arrives, which due to courier delays is likely to be Monday/Tuesday next week.

Just for clarification, do I do the following to create the mac accounts:

create the account using the "normal" account feature in the v4 admin interface, and then use phpmyadmin to put the password in the appropriate row?

I like to start with a clean install, rather than upgrade databases.

Regards,

Christopher.
 
 
 

Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 1:25 AM
From: "Tim" <ti***8@gmail.com>
To: gr***t@grasehotspot.org
Subject: Re: [GRASE-Hotspot] Grase V4 First Run Wizard

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[mailto:ch***y@mail.com]> wrote:
 
 
 

Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2020 at 8:17 PM
From: "Tim" <ti***8@gmail.com[mailto:ti***8@gmail.com]>
To: gr***t@grasehotspot.org[mailto:gr***t@grasehotspot.org]
Subject: [GRASE-Hotspot] Grase V4 First Run Wizard

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/[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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