Re: wireless dhcp sign in

David Gibbons <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.pdxlug
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Robby Russell wrote:

>Hey all,
>
>I was thinking about my office wireless setup and the security for it.
>It's fairly open right now and haven't seen any weird usage of it so
>far, but was considering using the encryption keys for it..but then
>thought that I would rather keep it 'open' and do something like
>Starbucks does with the login system via the web browser. This way when
>people come over and use the wireless, I can give them a login and not
>need to get them a key and such.
>
>How could this approach be done using open source tools? Are there any
>open source projects out there that can handle this functionality from
>the dhcp server?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Robby
>
>  
>
I believe what PTP uses for their "Agree" page is nocat. 
http://nocat.net/ looks like they have a nocatauth and a nocatsplash
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