User Registration
- The Dynamic Login Pages applet includes a user registration section which allows you to configure the user registration process per login page.
- This Wiki Page will discuss these options in detail
- If your install of RADIUSdesk does not include these features, be sure to upgrade your server to contain the latest SVN code and SQL patches.
Activating User Registration
- Select an entry in the Dynamic Login Pages applet and edit it.
- Under the Settings is a Registration sub-tab.
- User registration is by default disabled.
- When you enable it there are the following options to choose from:
| Item | Comment |
|---|---|
| Realm | The realm the new user must belong to |
| Profile | The profile to apply to the new user |
| Auto-add suffix | Whether to add a suffix in addition to the username that the user specified |
| Suffix | The word to append as a suffix to the username that the person registring provided |
| One user registration per device | Prevent a person from registering multiple times from one device by recording the MAC Address during the registration process |
| Auto-add device after authentication | Automatically add the MAC address of the device that the person registered with as a BYOD of the Permanent User after initial authentication |
| Send confirmation email | Email the user their credentials after they had successfully registered (Requires email server to be configured correct) |
- Most of the options are straight forward. There are however one which might need a bit more explanation. This is the Auto-add suffix option.
- RADIUSdesk has a limitation in that one can only register a username once.
- This means that if I come and register at a McDonalds restaurant with my email address johnsmith@gmail.com, I will not be able to register at a Coffee shop which are also hosted on the system using the same email address.
- To overcome this we can configure the system to automatically add a suffix and thus make the username unique.
- This way we can have johnsmith@gmail.com@mcd_jhb and johnsmith@gmail.com@bean_jhb on the same system.
- You'r next question will most likely be how will the user remember to add these suffix each time they log in?
- They do not have to. We simply specify to the login page what suffix to add automatically when a permanent user logs in. If the username does not end with the specified suffix, it will automatically be added before submitting the login request.
- This feature is also handy when you have a few hotels and you created permanent users like room1@hi_jhb, room2@hi_jhb, room3@hi_jhb etc.
- The vistor can then also simply type in room1 and the suffix will automatically be added.
- This way you can host a big number of hotels each having a room1 user.