CoovaChilli

Introduction

http://coova.org/CoovaChilli

Installation

Several other applications are required for an example setup of CoovaChilli:

$ pacman -S freeradius nginx mariadb php

From the AUR install the following two packages: daloradius^AUR and coova-chilli^AUR.

Example configuration

Example configuration for a full and working CoovaChilli setup. Consider eth0 is the interface for our incoming internet connection and eth1 is the gateway interface for our unknown wifi clients and is coonnected to various hot-spots.

FreeRadius

/etc/raddb/clients.conf

client 127.0.0.1 {
 secret     = mysecret
}

Adjust the following settings:

/etc/raddb/sql.conf

        server = "localhost"
        login = "root"
        password = "xxxx"

Uncomment the following settings:

/etc/freeradius/sites-available/default

authorize {
          sql
}

accounting {
         sql
}

Uncomment the following settings:

/etc/freeradius/radiusd.conf

       $INCLUDE sql.conf

Mysql database setup

Setup MariaDB and choose a password for the mysql root user.

$ mysql -u root -p
mysql> CREATE DATABASE radius;
mysql> exit
$ mysql -u root -p radius < /usr/share/nginx/html/daloradius/contrib/db/fr2-mysql-daloradius-and-freeradius.sql

CoovaChilli

/etc/chilli/defaults

HS_NETWORK=192.168.10.0
HS_UAMLISTEN=192.168.10.1

HS_RADSECRET=mysecret
HS_UAMSECRET=uamsecret
HS_UAMFORMAT=https://\$HS_UAMLISTEN/hotspotlogin/hotspotlogin.php
HS_UAMHOMEPAGE=https://\$HS_UAMLISTEN

daloRADIUS

$ rm /usr/share/nginx/html/index.html
$ cp -r /usr/share/webapps/daloradius/contrib/chilli/portal2/* /usr/share/nginx/html/

Adjust the following config values:

/usr/share/nginx/html/daloradius/library/daloradius.conf.php

$configValues['CONFIG_DB_PASS'] = 'xxxx';
$configValues['CONFIG_MAINT_TEST_USER_RADIUSSECRET'] = 'mysecret';
$configValues['CONFIG_DB_TBL_RADUSERGROUP'] = 'radusergroup';

Also in these several files:

/usr/share/nginx/html/signup-*/library/daloradius.conf.php

$configValues['CONFIG_DB_PASS'] = 'xxxx';
$configValues['CONFIG_DB_NAME'] = 'radius';
$configValues['CONFIG_DB_TBL_RADUSERGROUP'] = 'radusergroup';
$configValues['CONFIG_SIGNUP_SUCCESS_MSG_LOGIN_LINK'] = "<br />Click <b>here</b>".
                                        " to return to the Login page and start your surfing<br /><br />";

Start and enable applications

Create a systemd service file for coova-chilli.

$ systemctl enable nginx freeradius mysqld coova-chilli
$ systemctl start nginx freeradius mysqld coova-chilli

Also read

• Original tutorial: http://linux.xvx.cz/2010/03/debian-wi-fi-hotspot-using-coovachilli-freeradius-mysql-and-daloradius/
• List of Open Source capative portal software and network access control: https://mohammadthalif.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/list-of-open-source-captive-portal-software-and-network-access-control-nac/#comment-428