Authenticating guest WiFi users

The FortiOS Guest Management feature enables you to easily add guest accounts to your FortiGate unit. These accounts are authenticate guest WiFi users for temporary access to a WiFi network managed by a FortiGate unit.

To implement guest access, you need to

1. Go to User & Authentication > User Groups and create one or more guest user groups.
2. Go to User & Authentication > Guest Management to create guest accounts. You can print the guest account credentials or send them to the user as an email or SMS message.
3. Go to WiFi and Switch Controller > SSIDs and configure your WiFi SSID to use captive portal authentication. Select the guest user group(s) that you created.

Guest users can log into the WiFi captive portal with their guest account credentials until the account expires.