clogin(1) -- captive-portal login utility

SYNOPSIS

Usage: clogin login|logout|loop|test [--help] [OPTION...]

Login:

clogin login -u test -p test

Test connectivity:

clogin test

Continuesly check login state:

clogin loop -u test -p test

Logout:

clogin logout

INSTALL

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/authq/captive-login/master/bin/clogin
chmod +x clogin
sudo mv clogin /usr/local/bin

DESCRIPTION

At Amirkabir university, we have mikrotik powered captive-portal for internet access. This makes some challenges when a persistent internet connection is needed in headless devices and lab servers.

This utility automates captive-portal login proccess. I've tried to generalize all params as possible so it can be used in similar environments, at least with other mikrotik captive-portals.

Behind the scenes, login process is achived by sending a HTTPS POST request to /login endpoint of captive-portal containing username and password fields in body. Logout is done by sending a GET request to /logout endpoint. Both success if HTTP response code is 302 (Mikrotik spec). The connectivity test successes when GET requst to test url is 200. For detailed info of how this script works, see bin/clogin.

Supported options:

• -f, --conf - Path to config file (Defaults to clogin.conf)
• -l, --log-file <val> - Set log file (Defaults to /dev/stderr)
• -u, --username <val> - Set login username
• -p, --password <val> - Set login password
• --allow-empty - Allow using empty username and password
• -c, --client <val> - Set http client to make requests. (Possible values: auto|curl|wget)
• --base <val> - Set http client base url (Defauts to https://login.aut.ac.ir)
• --login-endpoint <val> - Set login endpoint (Defaults to /login)
• --logout-endpoint <val> - Set logout endpoint (Defaults to /logout)
• --test-url <val> - Set connectivity test url (Default to http://icanhazip.com)
• --loop-interval <val> - Set loop interval in seconds (Defaults to 1800 = 30 minutes)
• -h, --help - Display help message
• -v, --version - Display version
• -x, --debug - Debug mode. Shows all internal invoked commands

CONFIG FILE

Config files at the paths of /usr/local/etc/clogin.conf, /etc/clogin.conf and ~/.clogin.conf will be applied if readable in order before parsing options. For a complete example see etc/clogin.conf.

USERNAME=foo
PASSWORD=bar

When CONFIG_FILE environment variable or -f, --conf options provided it will be applied after parsing options.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

It is possible to use environment variables instead of arguments to configure clogin.

Supported environment variables:

• CONFIG_FILE
• LOG_FILE
• USERNAME
• PASSWORD
• ALLOW_EMPTY
• HTTP_CLIENT
• BASE_URL
• LOGIN_ENDPOINT
• LOGOUT_ENDPOINT
• SUCCESS_CODE
• TEST_URL
• TEST_SUCCESS_CODE
• LOOP_INTERVAL

DOCKER IMAGE

An alpine based docker image (~4MB) is available for ease of use and deployment.

docker pull authq/captive-login

docker run -it --rm  -e USERNAME="test" -e PASSWORD="test" authq/clogin loop

DEVELOPMENT

This project uses BATS for automated testing, Dockerfile for packaging and Makefile for development workflow.

Available Makefile commands:

• make test - Run BATS tests
• make install - Installs clogin utility to /usr/local/bin
• make docker-build - Build docker image
• make docker - Build and test docker image functionality

Feel free forking this repository and making PRs for features and fixes :)

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LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2018 Pooya Parsa [email protected]

This work is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0. See LICENSE for details.