[NoCat] "Dumb," static authentication?

[Alain Fauconnet]

Hello Ken,

ken at jots.org wrote:
> Hi, all.  (First and foremost, I hope this is the right list; I usually
> hesitate to e-mail "developers'" lists with usage questions, but that
> seemed to be how it's done here, so...)

Honestly I'm not sure there is much development going on or any 
developer on this list (or any at all).
This list is almost dead anyway.

> 
> I'm about to set up a captive portal for my company -- specifically, for
> visitors/contractors.  We don't want anything over-the-top; all we need is
> for ONE static password to be implemented, which we'll change on a (say)
> weekly basis.  Basically, we're just looking to discourage the casual
> peruser.  Since the WAP in question is outside our firewall, it's not like
> we're worried about security -- we just don't want to be an open access
> point.  However, the docs that I've found all seem to imply RADIUS or an
> SQL database, etc.  Is there any way to just do a query against a local
> text file, or PAM, or something?

Are you talking about the original, Perl-based version? or the new one 
written in C(++?) I'm not familiar with.
The old Perl-based version had authentication based on flat files
(see passwd, group, groupadm in ./etc and the 'admintool' program) and 
should be good enough for your needs. I'd go for the 'Actares' fork of 
the Perl version which has quite a few serious bug fixes merged in 
(http://www.actares.com/nocat-0.82-actares.tar.gz)

Greets,
_Alain_