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Me and my room mate often have a lot of friends come over to our apartment to play games and what not. So we are talking a lot of devices connecting to my router (cell phones, tablets, laptops etc .. some times even PS3). I currently have a DD-wrt based router.
What I want is the following - Create some kind of a login portal, the way they have in airports and stuff. The first time their device signs in they are shown a page where they enter their name. Then they hit "submit" at which point their internet starts "working".
I attached a USB wifi dongle to my wired Linux box. Installed dnsmasq dhcpserver, installed iptables and got it to work as a "router" by sharing out eth0 over wlan0 (enabling ip_forward, masquerading all that good stuff).. That part works.
How do I do the login portal thing? I am not interested in passwords (all though as a next step that would be cool). My place is like a central "hub" for a lot of my gaming pals, so often I have folks who are friends of friends and I just want to keep a basic track of what's going on etc.
Irah Najararadnus
Posted 2014-12-08T06:57:02.757
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1Look up "linux captive portal". You'll need Apache + MySQL (for the webpage) and (probably) squid (a proxy to manage the redirect of clients to your login page)... – Kinnectus – 2014-12-08T07:13:32.513
Captive portal is the way to go. – JakeGould – 2014-12-08T08:03:38.367