Developers guide

Chapter 7

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DURATION: a number corresponding to the period duration.

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DATETIME_UNIT: a character corresponding to the units of the date or time duration; either s (seconds),

m (minutes), h (hours), D (days), W (weeks), M (months), or Y (years).

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PERIOD_BASE: either F (fixed) or R (relative). A relative period is computed from the beginning of the

period unit. Weeks start on Monday.

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OPERATOR: either + or -. The duration following the operator is added or subtracted from the base

duration.

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DATE_UNIT: a character corresponding to the units of the extended duration. Limited to date units (D

(days), W (weeks), M (months), or Y (years)).

These parameters can also be configured from the Configuration � Admin Registration section of the

Web admin interface.

Caution

A valid MTA configured in PacketFence is needed to correctly relay emails related to

the guest module. If localhost is used as smtpserver, make sure that a MTA is installed

and configured on the server.

From the Users page of the PacketFence Web admin interface, it is possible to set the access duration

of users, change their password and more.

Guest pre-registration

To minimally configure guest pre-registration, you must make sure that the following statement is set

under [guests_self_registration] in /usr/local/pf/conf/pf.conf:

[guests_self_registration]

preregistration=enabled

This parameter can also be configured from the Configuration � Self Registration section.

Finally, it is advised that you read the whole guest self-registration section since pre-registration is simply

a twist of the self-registration process.

Caution

A valid MTA configured in PacketFence is needed to correctly relay emails related to

the guest module. If localhost is used as smtpserver, make sure that a MTA is installed

and configured on the server.

Statement of Health (SoH)

The Statement of Health (SoH) is product that has been developed by Microsoft. In the Microsoft world,

this is named Network Access Protection or NAP. On Windows versions from XP SP2 to Windows 7, there

is a NAP service installed that can relay health information (Anti-Virus update status, Windows Update