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tchelotchelo
tchelotchelo
New Member
June 12, 2025
Question

how to increase the time authentification of the captive portal

  • June 12, 2025
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we want to permitt user to authenticate on captive portal  one a time during 2 months and reauthenticate after 2 months.

is it possible with fortigate ?

 

please help .

 

2 replies

funkylicious
SuperUser
funkylicious
SuperUser
June 12, 2025

hi,

maybe this would help

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Increase-the-Captive-portal-user-retention-timeout/ta-p/253022 

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    kolelno1
    kolelno1
    New Member
    June 12, 2025

    Never used it but looks like you want to use "Pass-through credits allowed per MAC address" "Waiting period to restore pass-through credits" and "Hard Timeout" For instance you want to set pass through to 1 hard timeout to 120 min and Waiting Period to restore pass through credits to 240 min.

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