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Untangle - Professional-Grade Security Solutions.Untangle Captive Portal

The Open Source Network Gateway

 

Overview:

Untangle Captive Portal (Free) enables organizations to display a mandatory default web page to all users, before they are able to access the internet.

Untangle Captive Portal facilitates:

Features:

Terms-of-Use Acceptance: Most businesses, schools and government departments have an Internet policy in force. However, raising awareness of it, and ensuring adherence to it, remains a problem. Untangle Captive Portal enables organizations to display a mandatory default web page to all users, before they are able to access the internet. This Captive Portal web page can display and enforce an acceptable use policy, as well as authenticate users, to control internet access.

Organization may wish to require users that want access to the internet to first agree to the organization’s terms of use. Only on acceptance are they given access to the internet.

Authentication Mechanisms: Captive Portal supports a wide array of authentication mechanisms, from basic local directory-based authentication (on the Untangle server) to authentication through an Active Director server or RADIUS server when coupled with Untangle's Directory Connector.

Maximum Flexibility: Captive Portal is highly customizable. It allows organizations to establish User Defined Capture Rules, to handle a variety of exceptions that may be required. For example, authentication may only be required during a specific time period; certain computers and users may be exempt from authentication by adding them to Pass Lists

Customizable: Captive Portal has a completely customizable log-in page, which allows for organizations to add their own messages to the log-in screen. Web developers can write fully custom login pages allowing for more complex setups, like charging users for internet access. 

Access Logs: All attempts to log in to the internet through the Captive Portal are automatically logged. This provides a clear acceptance-of-terms audit trail for organizations and with it the teeth to enforce policy.