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Guest User Registration via Email not just SMS

Emile Belcourt

 Hi All,

After seeing another thread about Guest User Registration I looked into it and had a play...and immediately backed out of it after looking at playing with SMS gateway APIs, the potential pains and costs (although I could get a SIM shield for my RPi and set up my own SMS gateway).

I think there needs to be more than one option here other than just SMS, Email would be my chosen alternative auth method so I've created a feature request here: http://ideas.sophos.com/forums/330219-sophos-xg-firewall/suggestions/16749997-register-guest-users-via-email-authentication-de

What would other's thoughts on this, I think Guest user registration can be quite powerful and it also means I could sell XGs to coffee shops with a free public WiFi and would be snazzier than pre-shared key or vouchers :P

Emile



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    HI Emile, 

    It seems a Good Feature to have since everyone has their Email Setup on their mobile. But this feature is dependent on the client having their own internet connection just to connect to any HotSpot . But would support such request and Would encourage everyone to vote who would like such Feature.

    Thanks and Regards

    Aditya Patel | Network and Security Engineer.

  • 0 in reply to Aditya Patel

    Hi Aditya,

    Thanks for your support!

    I thought about the fact that if a person wants to use a guest wifi they probably will have limited or no signal. These days in most countries if you have a GPRS (2G) signal you're very likely to get a low quality 3G signal alongside it which is enough to receive a basic email on.

    Plus the use case for a majority of these deployments will be to hotels, town installations and similar and generally theres signal for mobile data. However its either poor quality or they just want the faster and more stable speeds of a WiFi that has a fixed physical speed.

    I definitely don't want the sms auth to go away, i would just like an alternative auth method :)

    Emile