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Re: Guest wireless access at University Conference Centers
From: Cal Frye <cjf () CALFRYE COM>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:26:37 -0400
Brinkman, Kathleen B. Ms. wrote:
Tagging onto this thread (I checked the archives and see 12/2006 threads on "open access to student labs" and "public access library ports", but don't see other threads on specific vendor solutions in support of guest access in a 'private network' sense). Does anyone have information on a vendor-provided solution to manage guest accounts? We plan to implement across campus, as Virginia Tech seems to have done. I like the VA Tech system's ability for a guest to create their own account and request departmental approval --- that off-loads some of the setup to the person requesting access. We use Cisco Clean Access and can feed the accounts to CCA, once created. I had planned to manage them elsewhere, in a system designed for that. Kathie Brinkman Director, Support Services IT Services Miami University Oxford, Ohio
Hi, neighbor! We wrote a little web utility that someone with OC credentials (student, staff, faculty) can use to create a "sponsored account" for a guest, with limited lifetime. Those accounts have a flag attribute set in our SunOne LDAP directory indicating their status, expiration, and person responsible for creation. We use Clean Access to authenticate against LDAP, and if the sponsored attribute is set, the user is sent into our sponsored role, which times out in 24 hours, has only limited access to on-campus resources, etc. etc. Ping me offline if you want to talk to the development team about this. -- Regards, -- Cal Frye, Network Administrator, Oberlin College www.calfrye.com, www.pitalabs.com "When one party is shameless, the other can't afford to be spineless." -- Julian Bond.
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- Re: Guest wireless access at University Conference Centers Randy Marchany (Sep 14)
- Re: Guest wireless access at University Conference Centers Brinkman, Kathleen B. Ms. (Sep 18)
- Re: Guest wireless access at University Conference Centers Custer, William L. Mr. (Sep 18)
- Re: Guest wireless access at University Conference Centers Cal Frye (Sep 18)
- Re: Guest wireless access at University Conference Centers Brenda B Gombosky (Sep 19)
- Re: Guest wireless access at University Conference Centers Cal Frye (Sep 19)
- Re: Guest wireless access at University Conference Centers Brinkman, Kathleen B. Ms. (Sep 25)