VIT-wifi-auto-auth

Run this script in the background and forget about logging into the vit router portal to access internet.

Download

Linux:

Download the wifiAutoAuth.sh file.

Windows:

Download the wifiAutoAuth.bat file.

Usage

Open wifiAutoAuth in a text editor.

Replace {YourUserId} with your portal login Id and {YourPassword} with your portal password.

Save the file.

Persistency

To make sure that this script runs every time you boot your system, you need to follow these steps:

Linux:

cd into directory of script

make script executable:

chmod +x wifiAutoAuth.sh

Using crontab

crontab -e
@reboot  /home/user/startup.sh

Now your your startup.sh script will run at every start.

Using systemctl:

• cd to /etc/systemd/system

• Create a file named wifiLogin.service

• Add the following lines to wifiLogin.service:

[Unit]
Description=WifiAutoLogin

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/path/to/wifiAutoAuth.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Replace /path/to/wifiAutoAuth.sh with your location of the login script and save the changes

• Reload the systemctl daemon using

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

• Enable the service:

sudo systemctl enable wifiLogin.service
sudo systemctl start wifiLogin.service

• Check the status of the service:

sudo systemctl status wifiLogin.service

Now your system will login to wifi on every system login

Windows

curl command-line tool is required for running this batch script you can install it from https://curl.se/windows/

Open the Windows Task Scheduler by typing "Task Scheduler" into the Start menu search bar and selecting the app from the search results.

Click "Create Task" in the Actions pane on the right.

Give the task a name, such as auto_wifi_auth.

Click the Triggers tab, then click New to add a new trigger.

In the New Trigger dialog box, select "At startup" from the Begin the task dropdown menu.

Click OK to save the trigger.

Click the Actions tab, then click New to add a new action.

In the New Action dialog box, enter the full path to the batch file in the Program/script field. For example, if the batch file is located in the C:\Users\username\Documents folder, you would enter C:\Users\username\Documents\autoWifiAuth.bat in the "Program/script" field.

Click OK to save the action.

Click OK to save the task.

The batch file will now run automatically every time the system starts up. If you ever need to change or delete the task, you can do so from the Windows Task Scheduler.