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Can someone point me in the right direction please. I'm setting up a small network for a charity. I would like to have a log in system where the user can login and log off, so I'm looking for free software which is easy to understand, just a basic one, no features where you pay by the go as these will be free.
I would like is to have a page with the internet policy where the user can click on I agree to this policy before being allowed to access the internet. How would I go about this, would this involve In me creating a php web page and set it to the home page, but this could be bypass if someone wrote the address in the address bar.:colbert:

Any advice. Thanks or reading.
 
I've never done this myself, but you can do this with RADIUS. DD-WRT has built-in support for RADIUS authentication, but you'll still need a separate authentication server.
 
If you're not up to configuring a RADIUS server yourself, the guys at the DD-WRT forums can probably help you. (Anandtech might not be the best place to ask.)

BTW, the RADIUS server does NOT have to be on your network. It can be a remote server hosted by someone else, which would be quite a bit cheaper than buying one for yourself.
 
a firewall system called monowall can do this easily. It runs on a separate pc in-between the router and network
 
It turns out you can run an entire RADIUS server on any router that has DD-WRT, enough RAM and enough storage (or enough RAM and a USB stick). You can do this for $100 or so and the guys at the DD-WRT forum can help you set it up. I highly recommend this approach.

Be warned, this will be moderately difficult.
 
Thanks for the advice, i'm going to do some research and see which is the best solution. I'm using windows 7
 
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Thanks for the correct term "captive portal" jlazzaro. Very helpful. As I'm working on Windows, I'm finding a lot of free software for Linux. Found a free software that offers captive portal which is Untangle Lite which might solve that issue. Not tested this yet. Just now to find a solution for a login for the users now.
 
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