On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 02:27:09 -0600, Christopher Snell
<chris dot snell at gmail dot com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone figured out how to do captive portal authentication without
> RADIUS?  I'm using m0n0wall on my home network and when I'm away,
> there are no computers (other than the Soekris running m0n0) to
> function as RADIUS servers.  It would be nice if m0n0wall had a simple
> username/password database (and Web UI to edit this) for
> authenticating captive portal users.
> 
> Has anybody looked at this?
> 

Dinesh talked about adding a local user database for captive portal
authentication a few months ago, and I believe at the time said he was
going to do it for an upcoming beta.  There have been 2 or 3 beta
releases since then though, so maybe he can pop into this thread and
give us an update.

-Chris