Auto login to captive portal

Hi Ravi,

This is not a piSignage query, but overall a linux query related to run piSignage successfully, so can you see if you can help?

I have a screen wherein the player has to login to a captive portal every 24 hours.

First of all I'm not able to autologin via curl command in the rc.local during bootup but if I run rc.local manually, it does login.

After the bootup login works, I can set to auto reboot the player every 24 hours

Output of my rc.local file:

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.

curl -d "username=myusername&password=mypassword&submit=Login" http://captiveportalurl.com/login

exit 0

Nick

December 10, 2019 17:23

I have also set player to not boot up until network interface is up.

Any way where I can see logs of failed attempt of rc.local?

Ravi Bail Bhat

December 11, 2019 10:16

Not sure how much of these googled links help, but you could also try other startup programs like systemd etc.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7783341/run-script-with-rc-local-script-works-but-not-at-boot

https://askubuntu.com/questions/239600/why-doesnt-rc-local-run-all-my-commands-and-what-can-i-do-about-it

December 12, 2019 15:54

Thanks Ravi.

I found out and resolved it

Instead of just curl, I should have used the full path of curl which is /usr/sbin/curl followed by the rest of the command

Auto login to captive portal

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