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FreeRADIUS Beginner's Guide
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FreeRADIUS Beginner's Guide

by Dirk van der
September 2011
Beginner to intermediate
344 pages
8h 6m
English
Packt Publishing
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Time for action – incorporating the Hotspot Happy Hour policy

We will use a virtual server to incorporate the Hotspot Happy Hour policy. This will then be added to the access point in the canteen's client definition. When we apply the virtual server to a client definition it makes it easy to use the same virtual server with other clients also.

Enabling the Happy Hour virtual server

Follow these steps to enable the server:

  1. Under the sites-available directory inside the FreeRADIUS configuration directory, create a file called happy_hour with the following content:
    server happy_hour { authorize { files # If user not present allow them free access # between 13:00 and 14:00 if(noop){ update control { Login-Time := 'Al1300-1400' Auth-Type := "Accept" } ...
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