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"a logout option" ? 17.5

Heartwood Hub

In the new 17.5 release, the notes say there is now a "logout option"  but i'm not able to find anything in the documentation.  I assumed this referred to a way for users to logout, but i'm not exactly sure what this functionality is, or how to use it.

I was hoping this might be a way for authenticated users to pull up a logout window or some functionality to logout, in case they accidentally closed their captive portal window? 

 

Thanks much.

 



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    Perhaps sophos can chime in on this.   I'm surprised that a feature advertised in the new release, has no mention of it anywhere else, other than that blogpost, and there is no reference to this anywhere in the documentation. 

     

    Thanks again.

     

  • 0 in reply to Heartwood Hub

    The Blog Post is talking about the New / Old CAA. 

    Client Authentication

    Client Authentication gets a major update with a variety of new enhancements such as per-machine deployment, a logout option, support for wake from sleep, and MAC address sharing.
     
     
     
    As far as i can tell, this client is rarely used and got an update in V17.5 
     
    It is quite similar to the SAA in UTM9. 
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    Exactly what I was thinking, where are these features ?

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    Heartwood Hub said:

    I was hoping this might be a way for authenticated users to pull up a logout window or some functionality to logout, in case they accidentally closed their captive portal window? 

    AFAIK the logout option was added to the Client Authentication Agent - the little windows system tray icon version of logging out.

    For Captive Portal, there have been no changes.

    Depending on how you configure Captive Portal you can force a log out if they close the captive portal window (use keepalive).  You can also bookmark the captive portal - and then if you ever need to log out you can hit the bookmark (which actually bookmarks to log in, but then you can log in as someone new, or log in and then out again - terrible I know).  As an admin you can go to Current Activities | Live Users and log someone off.  You can also do so using the XML API and as far as I remember there was another thread about people automating this.

    In v18 the Captive Portal configuration will be reorganized to make it clearer to the admins, however the underlying functionality will be the same.

  • 0 in reply to Michael Dunn

    I see, that makes sense,  although I would really like to see a way for users to pull up a log-off window.   I would also like to see a way for hotspot users to be able to log off of their vouchers.   

     

    Maybe v19 ;-) 

     

    Thanks much ++