Question

i have a wifi network that is authenticated. when the ipad is connected in that network i want my ipad app to bypass the login and use those credentials to login to my app. is that possible?

Answer 1

It’s not possible to find the particular user that was used to connect to the wifi through iOS. You might be able to do this if you have a server on your local network that is responsible for authenticating the username/password given to connect to the local wifi netowrk and then associate that with the address of the device. Then you could have a service that the iOS device could query and get the username from it.

So, you’d have

1. iOS device connects to network with
   username/password
2. wifi router authenticates user and
   logs username + MAC address
3. you app sends request to server on
   network with the iOS device’s mac
   address
4. server looks up mac address and
   finds the username associated with
   it (from the second step)
5. server returns username to iOS
   device app and you continue your app with that user