On Wed, 2018-10-03 at 20:19 +0200, live--- via networkmanager-list wrote: > Hello NM-community, > > > firth of all: thank you for this feature-rich networking tool, so far > did it never missed my needs! > > > However did I run into huge problems since I am working on changing > locations and need to connect into unsecured wifi-networks that use a > web-based login-page (sometimes you have to enter a username and > password sometimes you just need to press a bottom to confirm to the > Terms of Usage). In any way, I can login to those networks to the > firth time and use it without any problems. But after some time I got > disconnected or turned off the laptop and from this moment on was I > complete unable to connect to those networks again. Even the "forget > network" function inside the history doesn't changed anything. Can > this be related to that I use '''wifi.cloned-mac-address=random''' to > randomly change my mac-addresses on every new connection? >
Hi, it is quite possible that such a login-page (captive portal) would recognize you base on the MAC address. So, if you change the MAC address, you would need to re-authenticate. If you subsequently fail to re-authenticate, then it's unclear why the login-page would be have that way. Maybe it stores a cookie in your browser and does not like you changing the MAC address? That seems a bit unusual though. I wouldn't expect that deleting and re-creating the connection profile in NetworkManager would help here. Note there is "wifi.cloned-mac-address=stable" which precisely exists to give you a scrambled MAC address but also control of when it changes. The "stable" goes together with "connection.stable-id", see `man nm-settings` and [1]. [1] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/examples/nm-conf.d/30-anon.conf#n31 best, Thomas
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