I have set up User Manager for logging into our hotspot. I can create users and log in without issue but when I try to use Mac Authentication nothing happens.
I have set up logging and I do not see any radius logs like I see when a user tries to log in. I see no new logs at all.
I have a RB1100AHx2 running ROS and UserManager 6.34.1.
The hotspot server profile is set up to login by MAC using MAC as username and no password. The user has been created in User Manger with no password and an active profile using the MAC address as the username. I have even set it up with a password on both but nothing seems to work.
My understanding is that this should just work but I am not having much luck.
Im also having the same issue with Mac based logins.
Another related problem usermanager is the loss of the ability to create users via the command line. It seems that in order to create a new user you must copy an existing one.
/tool user-manager user add copy-from=Bob username=Bill password=password
Is the ability to add a new user without copying an existing one from the command line going to be re added to this package? Maybe this could be re introduced back in at the same time mac authentication is fixed.
I am interested to see how this works as well. Would be a great setup in my network and I can see a lot of potential.
I will continue to visit this post for any updates.
After some trial and error I found out why I was having issues with the MAC Authentication and it didn’t have anything to do with usermanager.
On the Hotspot Server by default it sets the number of addresses per MAC to 2. When I plugged into the network to test the hotspot I was previously connected to another network. So, in the hotspot hosts I was listed in there twice.
# MAC-ADDRESS ADDRESS TO-ADDRESS SERVER IDLE-TIMEOUT
0 DA 00:21:CC:B5:2C:D6 10.30.8.123 172.16.88.248 hotspot1
1 H 00:21:CC:B5:2C:D6 172.16.88.251 172.16.88.251 hotspot1 2h5m
So from what I can tell is that it authorizes the first entry but not the second which is the IP address I am using. If I drop this down to 1 then it seems to work without issues. I am not sure of the root cause, it could be because I am moving between networks so quickly. IDK the exact reason for sure.
Any details on this would be cool to know and if I need to post this somewhere else please let me know.