Re: unsecured networks
Hello Mr. Haller, thank you very much for your response! Yes, checking my web-browser date let me confirm that those login-pages set several cookies. However I can't confirm if they responsible for the connection fails. Those cookies was set from networks from hotels I resident during the last weeks and I am now in another hotel and didn't connect to it's Wifi-network so far. (I stopped accessing the network without entering an username or password as soon as I saw that it also use a "captive portal" for seeking help first. Now a strange thing happened: After reading your message did I tried to connect to the network today. But than the same behavior again: without that the portal popping up does network-manager try directly to connect to the network. Also network-managers GUI shows a clear-sign and Gnome shows me the signal-strength like the connection would be fully established. On 03/10/2018 at 9:14 PM, "Thomas Haller" wrote: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___ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: unsecured networks
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 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
unsecured networks
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? ___ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
