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sheps
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May 17, 2013
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Open WiFi?

  • May 17, 2013
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I want to provide free WiFi to customers at a restaurant/coffee shop type setting. I don' t want to make them authenticate in any fashion (no usernames/passwords, no WPA/WPA2 keys, etc). Can this be done on a FortiWiFi/FortiAP? As an alternative, I would be happy with using a Captive Portal (to force the customers to click " I Accept" ), but again I don' t want to make them use a password of any sort. This doesn' t seem to be possible via the Web GUI, but how about command line? Anyone?

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    rwpatterson
    rwpatterson
    New Member
    May 17, 2013
    Just turn off authentication on the WiFi and it' s wide open. Don' t use FortiAPs myself, but I don' t see how they could be much different...
    sheps
    shepsAuthor
    New Member
    May 17, 2013
    Thanks for Replying. If I go to WiFi Network -> SSID -> Create New, and look under " Security Mode" , I have 3 options: - WPA/WPA2-Personal - WPA/WPA2-Enterprise - Captive Portal I don' t see any way to turn off Security/Authentication. Am I missing something? Thanks.
    rwpatterson
    rwpatterson
    New Member
    May 17, 2013
    OK, before I get too deep in the hole, what firmware version and what platform? You mentioned FortiAP. I don' t use those, so there may be some intricacy I' m not aware of. Also, I haven' t advanced past 4.2.x, so the 4.3 and 5.0 lines may have other conditions as well.
    sheps
    shepsAuthor
    New Member
    May 17, 2013
    I' m running FortiGates w/ 4.0 MR3 Patch 2 through Patch 12. I' m running FortiAP' s w/ 4.0 MR3 at various patch levels as well. I' m waiting on delivery for my first FortiWiFi units, so I haven' t installed a firmware on those yet. I' m not running anything on 4.2.
    rwpatterson
    rwpatterson
    New Member
    May 17, 2013
    OK, I' m going to bow out here. Hopefully someone with experience on your build and hardware level has some input for you. P.S. - I could have just looked at your signature, duh!
    Carl_Wallmark
    Carl_Wallmark
    New Member
    May 17, 2013
    Open Security can only be enabled in CLI on older firmwares. In the latest 5.x firmware, you can enable it from the GUI as well.
    sheps
    shepsAuthor
    New Member
    May 17, 2013
    Open Security can only be enabled in CLI on older firmwares. In the latest 5.x firmware, you can enable it from the GUI as well.
    Yes! Thank you! This is exactly what I wanted to hear! Any idea on where I can find documentation on the command line/config file syntax? I tried searching for it, suspecting that to be the case, before I posted here. I' m willing to try 5.x but I' d rather test that in a lab first, so I' d like to know how to accomplish this through the CLI on 4.0 MR3 in the mean time. Thanks!
    ede_pfau
    SuperUser
    ede_pfau
    SuperUser
    May 17, 2013
    this might help (for 4.3):
    config wireless-controller vap edit <vap_name> set security {captive-portal | open | wep128 | wep64 | wpa-enterprise | wpa-only-enterprise | wpa-only-personal | wpa-personal | wpa2-only-enterprise | wpa2_only-personal} ...
    from " FortiOSâ„¢ CLI Reference,FortiOS 4.0 MR3"
    sheps
    shepsAuthor
    New Member
    May 17, 2013
    You' re a life saver! That did the trick. Thanks.
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