OpenNDS is a high performance, small footprint Captive Portal, offering by default a simple splash page restricted Internet connection yet incorporates an API that allows the creation of sophisticated authentication applications.
After installing the snap you can adjust the configuration file in /var/snap/opennds/common/opennds/opennds.conf following the documentation at https://openndsdocs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Then you need to allow the snap access to the firewall, network configuration, mount information and some system resources with the commands
sudo snap connect opennds:firewall-control
sudo snap connect opennds:hardware-observe
sudo snap connect opennds:mount-observe
sudo snap connect opennds:network-observe
sudo snap connect opennds:system-observe
After connecting these snap interfaces, the opennds daemon will start
automatically. To interact with the daemon the snap package ships
the opennds.ndsctl command
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
If you’re running Kubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) or later, including Kubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) and Kubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish), you don’t need to do anything. Snap is already installed and ready to go.
Versions of Kubuntu between 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) and 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) don’t include snap by default, but snap can be installed from the command line as follows:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
To install opennds, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install opennds --edge
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