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Using captive portal, how can i log off?

Mike Cruz

Im using this settings because i like the idea to not have a popup or even ask to my users to "allow a wrong certificate", but i dont know if there is a link or url to bring in order to log off, im planning to use users to allow 1 device for each, so i think this will be very important. any advice? thanks.

 



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    Mike,

    use preserve captive portal after login. This will preserve the captive portal where users can even logoff.

    Make sure to check show captive portal to unknow users on the firewall rule (lan to WAN or wherever you would like to have authentication).

    Regards

  • 0 in reply to lferrara

    Is there a way to get the logout button, once the captive portal page is refreshed or closed by mistake,

    After it comes back to login page on refreshing the page or opening the page again, user cannot login, it says "Maximum login limit is reached."
    As our user can login only 1 device at a time, any ways to resolve it?

  • 0 in reply to Sekharendu Gupta

    I believe you can right-click on the logout hyperlink, and save it as a bookmark.  Then you can hit the bookmark whenever you want to log out.  Similarly I think it is not unique to a computer, so if didn't have the bookmark you could grab the URL from a different machine that had captive portal running.

     

     

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  • 0 in reply to Sekharendu Gupta

    I believe you can right-click on the logout hyperlink, and save it as a bookmark.  Then you can hit the bookmark whenever you want to log out.  Similarly I think it is not unique to a computer, so if didn't have the bookmark you could grab the URL from a different machine that had captive portal running.

     

     

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  • 0 in reply to Michael Dunn

    Copying the link on logout button gives "javascript:submitRequest()"

    Also tried saving the logout page itself, and tried clicking on logout gives "connection lost" error.

    Also modified the saved page, changing the path for the JavaScript, still didn't work.

  • 0 in reply to Sekharendu Gupta

    Yes, this really is a significant flaw in design for the captive portal.  far to easy for users to close the window and not be able to log off.  I really need a way to do this.  Should be able to re-open log-out window. or at least have another link that users can use to log off.

    Same goes for the voucher login on hotspot, there is no way for users to logout.  

  • 0 in reply to Michael Dunn

    Sorry I thought I had replied to this.

    You are right, you cannot bookmark the logoff button.

    You can, however bookmark the login page.  Not ideal at all, but you can log in again and then log off.  Possibly (not sure) a bad username/password would cause the current person to be logged off.

  • 0 in reply to Michael Dunn

     you can as you say bookmark the login window, the current logged in user, can login and then click logout.   which is far from ideal.  users will not like having to do this extra step to logout.

    There is of course the option to use "keep alive" for the user session, that way if they accidentally close the window, it logs them out.  but this does not allow one to use the user timeout function, to set specific timeouts on logged in users.  

     

    There really needs to be a way to enter a simple URL that logs out users.   perhaps taking a peek at the javascript that is triggered when users are logged out, could possibly reveal some way of contructing a URL.?