no error message when user doesn't exist

Marco Simioni m.simioni at gmail.com
Tue May 13 07:28:28 UTC 2008


2008/5/12 Gunther Mayer <gunther.mayer at googlemail.com>:
> Javier Larrea Armañanzas wrote:
>
> > Hi list,
> > I've set up a pc with coovachilli+freeradius+apache and I'm testing a
> little.  Everything is fine when I put a correct username and password in my
> local captive portal but when I put a wrong username or password I get a
> page that says "Please wait..." but I would expect an error message when the
> radius service gave the "Access-Reject" response.  However I only get the
> "Please wait..." message and nothing new happens.
> > It's this normal?
> >
>  afaik yes. However, it's been ages since we last looked at stock login
> scripts, we ended up heavily customising ours to get it to do what we
> wanted. Also, you'll see that there are multiple causes for reject (invalid
> password, not enough credits etc.) which are best controlled through radius
> messages that your login script then converts into html. I haven't done that
> coding myself though so I'm afraid I can't help you further.
>
>  Gunther
>
>
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Can anybody provide some example of script to catch Access-Reject
messages and its variants?

My customers too are asking for such features, because just waiting
for the timeout is somewhat annoying.

Thankyou i.a.

Marco



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