[release-notes] Fedora Workstation has captive portal detection

Pete Travis immanetize at fedoraproject.org
Sun Oct 5 02:24:31 UTC 2014


commit ce2a138a6f32e724ae91b57f105fea79f38a472a
Author: Pete Travis <immanetize at fedoraproject.org>
Date:   Sat Oct 4 20:24:27 2014 -0600

    Fedora Workstation has captive portal detection

 en-US/Products-Workstation.xml |   10 +++++++++-
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/en-US/Products-Workstation.xml b/en-US/Products-Workstation.xml
index f6ea83e..a384163 100644
--- a/en-US/Products-Workstation.xml
+++ b/en-US/Products-Workstation.xml
@@ -15,7 +15,15 @@
       Fedora Workstation developers have provided many enhancements to streamline and improve the GNOME Desktop Environment.  Read more about changes to GNOME in Fedora &PRODVER; in <xref linkend="desktop-GNOME" />
     </para>
   </section>
-  
+  <section>
+    <title>Captive Portal Detection</title>
+    <para>
+      Fedora Workstation, by default, enables a captive portal detection that requests known content from a trusted Fedora server. If the request is redirected, a window automatically appears for you to interact with the portal's login webpage.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      To disable this feature, remove <filename>/etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/20-connectivity-fedora.conf</filename>
+    </para>
+  </section>
 </section>
 
 


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