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external captive portal - radius authentication vs authentication text

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  • 1.  external captive portal - radius authentication vs authentication text

    Posted May 30, 2014 10:50 AM

    i can't find a clear explanation in the documentation and the different threads on airheads also miss some details i need.

     

    so what is the exact difference? is it like?

     

    - radius authentication

    send user to external page where he / she enters credentials which are then HTTP POSTed back to IAP which sends them to configured authentication server?

     

    - authentication text

    send to user external page where he / she enters credentials which are checked by local page which then shows a page with a string on which the signals the authentication succeeded or not?

     



  • 2.  RE: external captive portal - radius authentication vs authentication text
    Best Answer

    Posted Jun 02, 2014 08:24 AM

    From my tests the conclusion is as follows:

     

    - authentication text method is as follows : 

         - User gets redirected to external page

         - External page sends back to the iAP only a POST entry with text : "authenticated"

    - radius authentication as follows:

        - User gets redirected to external page

        - external page returns the username and password and other hidden attributes to the iAP

        - iAP checks the information against the RADIUS server configured

        - based on the check the client would get in post auth role

        - if you are using the "role based auth" then based on the answer back from your RADIUS you could have triggers to select other post auth roles.



  • 3.  RE: external captive portal - radius authentication vs authentication text

    Posted Jun 02, 2014 01:57 PM

    thank you, makes sense. would be nice if Aruba put that in a manual or such.



  • 4.  RE: external captive portal - radius authentication vs authentication text

    Posted May 18, 2015 07:32 AM

    Dear ,

    I canot understand about this sentence:

       - External page sends back to the iAP only a POST entry with text : "authenticated"

     

    It's like that?

              <form method="post" action="/cgi-bin/login">
                    <input type="hidden" name="authenticated" value="authenticated" />
                    <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="0" />
                    <input type="submit" name="Login" value="I Agree" class="button" />
            </form>

    But The Server   Return that Error Message :

    <html><pre>Error in invocation. Error string - bad ret code</pre></html>

     

    (So I donot how to  POST entry with text : "authenticated")

     

    Thaks!

     



  • 5.  RE: external captive portal - radius authentication vs authentication text

    Posted Jun 18, 2015 03:56 PM

    Evan Lin,

     

    I have the same problem.

    I cannot figure out how to send back this "Authenticated" text to the IAP.

    Did you find a solution ?

     

    Thanks



  • 6.  RE: external captive portal - radius authentication vs authentication text

    Posted Jun 19, 2015 04:19 AM

    Not Yet !!

     

    But You can Try like this,before you set the right user/password in the iap

     

    Jquery Code :

    $("#password").val('123456');
    $("#user").val('test');    
    $("#wifi_form").attr("action", http://192.168.100.25/cgi-bin/login);    
    $("#wifi_form").submit();