PSU fixed the guest wifi, and I appreciate that. Perhaps Mordac took a vacation this summer.
A minor annoyance remains. To get access, PSU's access bot either texts your slave-phone (which I do not have) or sends an html email to the address you provide (my sole use of gmail). The email has a weblink that, when clicked, completes the handshake, after which 24 hours of access is provided. Cumbersome. I run postfix on my own mail server. How easy would it be to set up a special email address that drives a script that extracts the web address and "clicks it" for me? For example, imagine the special email address is [email protected] . Postfix redirects the email body to a script which extracts the PSU URL: > ... > To activate your PSU Guest Wi-Fi access for 24 hours, > please click on the following link: > https://sentinel.net.pdx.edu/activate/email/800fa36407c214d1cd56d7fb1302adae > ... ... then sends a wget to that address, discarding the result. This all happens in the background, I don't need to jump through the extra hoops. Of course, I will use a more obscure email address on my server, and change it from time to time. Besides bureaucratic obstinacy, I don't see much potential for problems. Am I missing something important? Can a clever programmer suggest an even easier way to do it, perhaps even automagically filling out the guest wifi "signin and agree" form as soon as I connect to PSUguest? I can even imagine a command line script that enables my wifi (I leave that turned off by default), connects to PSUguest, fills out the script, then activates the openvpn link to my home network. Seems like someone with better programming skills and a similar network setup could figure this out in 30 minutes. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
