Dormlife

To use the internet access in my student dorm you have to authenticate yourself in the browser. This is not only annoying but also makes my headless Raspberry Pi useless. First I thought i could just spoof the MAC address of my Raspberry on an other PC and authenticate it from that device. This kind of worked, how ever the access resets all the time (I did not figure out a clear pattern, but almost every day) so this wasn’t a long term option. I decided to try to automate the auth process in a simple script.