[NoCat] 'Dumb,' static authentication?

[ken at jots.org]

On Mon, December 18, 2006 4:03 am, Alain Fauconnet wrote:
> 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..

Ah, well.  In that case, I guess I won't be intruding too much.  ;-)

> 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)

Looks like I'm looking at nocatsplash -- the C-based one.  The reason
being, I'm looking to run it on my WAP via OpenWRT.  I know there are
other captive portal solutions for OpenWRT, but NoCat(splash) seemed to be
the closest to my needs.

Thanks for the reply!

-Ken