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January 19, 2021
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Guest Wireless - No Password Required

  • January 19, 2021
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Business has a FortiGate running 6.0.10 and a few FortiAP's. Is it possible to set up a SSID for guest internet access only that does not require a password from the guest user? No LAN access is needed or wanted via the guest SSID. When creating a new SSID it looks from the GUI that a Pre-shared Key is required. Is there a way to set up an SSID without a required password?

    Best answer by Toshi_Esumi

    At System->Feature Visibilities, enable "Wireless Open Security". Then you can see "Open" as one of SSID's security mode options.

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    Toshi_Esumi
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    SuperUser
    January 19, 2021

    At System->Feature Visibilities, enable "Wireless Open Security". Then you can see "Open" as one of SSID's security mode options.

    SecurityPlus
    SecurityPlusAuthor
    Explorer III
    January 19, 2021

    Thank you!

     

    From a security standpoint, if the SSID is set with Administrative Access all Off, it is set to Block Intra-SSID Traffic, and if there is only an IPv4 policy allowing the Outgoing Interface to go to the WAN interface only, is this fairly safe for the sake of the other network users and the network itself?

    Toshi_Esumi
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    Toshi_Esumi
    SuperUser
    January 19, 2021

    If no password, nobody can know if the SSID is actually hosted by your AP. Somebody can easily get in the middle. So I would never use it as a wifi user if avoidable.

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