Alcasar 3.6.1 Installation en
Alcasar 3.6.1 Installation en
Alcasar 3.6.1 Installation en
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INSTALLATION
Table of contents
1.Introduction.........................................................................................................................................................2
2.Installation...........................................................................................................................................................3
2.1. Hardware requirement................................................................................................................................3
2.2. Installation of the system............................................................................................................................3
2.3. Installation of ALCASAR..........................................................................................................................8
2.4. Connection to the ALCASAR Control Center.........................................................................................11
3.Stop, uninstall or update ALCASAR................................................................................................................12
4.Your ALCASAR settings sheet.........................................................................................................................12
Project : ALCASAR Author : Rexy with help from “Alcasar team”. Thanks to translators.
Object : Installation Version : 3.6.1
Keywords : Network Access Control (NAC), accountability, traceability, authentication, Date : 2024, March
captive portal, parental control.
Consultation network
Switch
ISP equipment
(broadbans router)
Internet
Parameters @IP of the Number of Network mask @IP of ALCASAR DNS suffix
network equipment (this address is the IP address of the
Classe DNS server and of the default gateway
Default IP address plan 192.168.182.0/24 253 255.255.255.0 192.168.182.1/24 localdomain
(“C class” )
“B class” IP plan 172.16.x.0/16 65533 255.255.0.0 172.16.x.1/16 localdomain
1 ≤ x ≥ 255
Even if it is possible to define a “A class” network, you shouldn't do it because the embedded DHCP server will have to manage over
than 16 million IP addresses. The management of such volume of addresses would spend too much memory.
The hard disk partitioning will be adapted Select “Custom disk partitioning” then
to the needs of ALCASAR (see next step). click “Next”.
Click "Finish"
Click "Next"
watch ip link
Display continuously the state of the
network cards.
You have to connect the cable linked to the
ISP broadband modem (Internet access) in
When you plug a cable in a network card,
the network interface you have previously
the “state” change from “DOWN” to
configured (normally, the interface with
“UP”.
the smallest index).
• Via HTTP : on the ALCASAR PC, download the last version stored on the server “ftp.alcasar.net”
• via a USB flash drive : From a Desktop PC, download the latest version of the ALCASAR (website or
ftp.alcasar.net). Copy this file on an USB flash drive. Then, use the following procedure to copy it on the
ALCASAR computer :
Screen display Comments Actions to achieve
mkdir -p /media/usb
• Create a directory and mount the mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usb/
USB flash drive on it. cp /media/usb/alcasar-* /root/
• Copy the archive of ALCASAR to umount /media/usb
the directory “/root”.
• Unmount the USB flash drive.
• Unplug it. Info : Replace "sdb1" with the device name retrieved
in the previous step.
sha256sum alcasar-x.y.tar.gz
• Compute the SHA256 digital
footprint of this installation file and Info : If the digital footprint doesn't match, download
compare it with that of the website. the archive again. If the problem occurs one more
time, ask the developer team via the forum.
If you want to update a previous version of ALCASAR, it’s time to copy the configuration file of your previous
version of ALCASAR in the folder “/var/tmp/” with the name “alcasar-conf.tar.gz”.
You can also display this page by clicking the link in the explanation text of the user’s interception page:
Now, read the exploitation documentation (“alcasar-exploitation-en.pdf”) to create your first “user” accounts.
After a fresh installation, the pages presented to users are not encrypted (HTTP). The exploitation
documentation explains how to change this behavior if desired (HTTPS).
Organization name :
Users authentication page This page is displayed when a browser tries to access a HTTP website.
The welcome page of ALCASAR allows: http://alcasar.localdomain
• to access the ALCASAR Control Center.
• log the users out
• change the users password Info : The possibilities of the ALCASAR Control Center (ACC) are
• install the certificate of the Certification Authority described in the "ALCASAR-exploitation-en.pdf" document.
(C.A.) in the browsers.
Linux accounts root password : .......................
sysadmin password : .......................
First ALCASAR WEB administrative account Login: .................... password : …...................
Network parameters
• IP address of the ISP's equipment (router) : • ____.____.____.____
• IP address of DNS servers : • DNS1 :____.____.____.____
• DNS2 :____.____.____.____
• IP address of ALCASAR (WAN/Internet side) : • ____.____.____.____/___
• IP address of ALCASAR (LAN side) : • ____.____.____.____/___