Netaccess

A fast, robust and interactive CLI (command line interface) application written in Rust to manage internet access without all the hassle with https://netaccess.iitm.ac.in. This application has the additional capability of monitoring and auto authorizing your system's IP address.

Installation

Building from source

• Install rust following this link. Windows users will require a Visual Studio installation (2019 / 2022) and C++ tools coming with it, see here.
• Once rust is setup, compile the binary with the following command:

cargo build --release

• Install the built binary with the following command:

cargo install --path .

Prebuilt binaries

• Release page of this repo will have latest binaries for all supported platforms whenever there are major changes.
• Download the zip file for your system and extract the contained binary. Copy the path of the directory to which it is extracted and add it to the PATH environment variable.
• For mac users, aarch64 corresponds to the M1/M2 chips and x86_64 is for the Intel variant, and neither of them will work on the other variant so choose accordingly.

Usage

To print a list of available commands, provide the --help argument. For example:

This will print all of the subcommands and arguments along with documentation.

netaccess --help

For example, this will print help for the status subcommand.

netaccess status --help

Notes

• This application is intended for use by students at IIT Madras alone, and will not work for anyone else.
• All commands require your LDAP username and password as there is no way to safely store it in the system.
• Username and password will be prompted to enter, and password input will be hidden (for your own safety) so just enter the password and hit enter.