Wi-Fi mac auth produces no valid profile error

RouterOS The User Manager
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I have set up user manager on a routerboard and on a separate mAP confgured the wireless AP as described in https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/User_Manager/Wireless_Example

Attempts to connect to the AP from a PC that has it’s mac address listed as a valid user in user manager produce a user manager log with an error that says “No valid profile for user ”

The example cited above gives no instructions for creating a profile. Even if I do create a profile that has no restrictions and assign it to the user, I get the same error.

What am I doing wrong? How do I get user manager to authorize a list of mac addresses on a mikrotik AP? I do not want to use hotspot, just simple mac-radius authentication for wireless users.

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I’ll answer my own question for the benefit of others. It turns out that the cited documentation is insufficient. Before creating any users in user manager I found that I first needed to create a profile (with all the defaults). Then users can be created and they will pick up the profile. If users are created before profiles are created, they do not work, even if profiles are added later.

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thanks for this post, it works for me as well this way.

Where to report gap in wiki?

S.