quick start

Two ways in. Grab a binary from tashifkhan/sophos-auto-login if you do not want a Python install, or clone and run autologin.py.

You still need to be on the campus network that can reach http://172.16.68.6:8090/httpclient.html. Off campus this script has nothing to talk to.

1. Open tashifkhan/sophos-auto-login.
2. Download the build for your OS.
3. Run it.

Windows. Double-click autologin.exe.

macOS. Extract autologin-mac.zip (release zips have also been named autologin_script-mac.zip). Gatekeeper will block an unsigned binary. Either:

• In Terminal, cd to the extract folder and run xattr -d com.apple.quarantine autologin, then run ./autologin.
• Right-click the file, choose Open, confirm the dialog. Or allow it under System Settings, Privacy & Security.

Linux. Extract autologin-linux.zip (or autologin_script-linux.zip), cd there, run ./autologin.

The frozen binary carries its own deps. First launch copies credentials.db into the persistent path if that file is still empty.

git clone https://github.com/tashifkhan/sophos-auto-login.git
cd sophos-auto-login
pip install -r requirements.txt
python autologin.py

python3 works the same. No flags opens the interactive menu. Add at least one ID before you start auto-login. Empty database, run_auto_login() prints an error and returns.

Pinned packages live in requirements.txt. The ones the script actually imports:

• requests for the portal POSTs
• rich for the TUI
• speedtest-cli for --speedtest
• win10toast on Windows, notify2 listed for Linux (the notifier itself shells out to notify-send)

sqlite3 is in the stdlib. README still mentions lxml and colorama. Login parsing uses xml.etree.ElementTree, not lxml.

1. Add an ID: menu option 1, or python autologin.py --add.
2. Start the loop: menu option 2, or python autologin.py --start.
3. Leave that terminal open, or on Unix use daemon mode.

Ctrl+C hits exit_handler / signal_handler, which POSTs logout for the active credential before the process dies.