On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 10:42 -0700, Russ Dill wrote: > Clearly a complex problem with no simple solution. It sucks that > PPP/dialup/etc autentication problems are now in the past, completely, > automated etc, and now we must start all over again. > > There is no simple, non-intrusive way for network manager to know that > a network needs some form of authentication. But I'm thinking, maybe > some daemon could be running that could detect that a > redirection/authentication step had taken place. Once that occurs, it > could be associated that the network requires a > redirection/authentication step. When network manager connects to that > network again, it would then be able to popup a browser window upon > connection, allowing the user to authenticate, once the user closes > the authentication window, network manager could assume that it really > is connected. > > The problem that I have is that I'll gave gmail windows open and when > firefox detects a connection through network manager, gmail will try > to start talking to the server again, but the SSL certificates don't > match, so I keep getting error messages. Its really difficult to click > past them fast enough.
I believe there are already NetworkManagerDispatcher scripts to do this for a number of portal types: http://www.darrenalbers.net/wiki/index.php?title=NetworkManagerScripts&oldid=1408 Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
