Re: Guest Accounts

[Valerie Vogel <vvogel () EDUCAUSE EDU>]

Hi Wayne,
 
One of the Higher Education Information Security Council's working
groups discussed your request yesterday and would like to share some of
their online policies and procedures regarding guest accounts and
visitor access. Hopefully this is what you're looking for. 
 
The Ohio State University - Wireless Network: Guest and Visitor Access
http://8help.osu.edu/3053.html <http://8help.osu.edu/3053.html>  
 
The Ohio State University - Guest Account Provisioning 
http://wireless.osu.edu/guests/accounts/
<http://wireless.osu.edu/guests/accounts/>  
 
The University of Kansas - Procedure for Guest Access to Wireless Local
Area Network (WLAN) 
https://documents.ku.edu/policies/Information_Services/GuestAccessWirele
ss.htm
<https://documents.ku.edu/policies/Information_Services/GuestAccessWirel
ess.htm>  
 
The University of Kansas Libraries - Access to Libraries Services
Policies
http://www.lib.ku.edu/accservices/Access/index.shtml
<http://www.lib.ku.edu/accservices/Access/index.shtml>  
 
Wayne State University - Guest Wireless Access System
http://computing.wayne.edu/network/guestwireless-login.php
<http://computing.wayne.edu/network/guestwireless-login.php>  
 
Also below is a sampling of not-secured (with institution credential) UT
System institutions' policies and/or procedures regarding guest
credentialing.
 
> From UT System Identity Management Federation Membership Operations
Practices (MOP) - This applies to all institutions: 
"4. Guests or other officially approved affiliates must be verified by
established procedures implemented by the Institution, which must
include in-person identity vetting."
 
UT Austin: https://management.pna.utexas.edu/static/about-pna.html
<https://management.pna.utexas.edu/static/about-pna.html>  Start at the
bottom of this page with the section titled Who Can Use the Public
Network. Notice the second paragraph. There's a number of related
material pages at varying levels below.
 
UT Dallas: http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/CAR.htm
<http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/CAR.htm>  The access request form
is the second after following the Forms link.
 
UT Health Science at Houston:
http://www.uth.tmc.edu/netcenter/security/sponsor-respon.htm
<http://www.uth.tmc.edu/netcenter/security/sponsor-respon.htm>  Guest
Access Identity Verification Form
http://www.uth.tmc.edu/orsc/forms/NotaryVerification.pdf
<http://www.uth.tmc.edu/orsc/forms/NotaryVerification.pdf>   
 
UT Health Science Center San Antonio: Guest wireless account
http://ims.uthscsa.edu/communications/wirelessguestacct.aspx
<http://ims.uthscsa.edu/communications/wirelessguestacct.aspx>  More
general Access Control and Password Management:
http://www.uthscsa.edu/hop2000/5.8.4.pdf
<http://www.uthscsa.edu/hop2000/5.8.4.pdf>  
 
Thank you,
Valerie
_____________ 
Valerie M. Vogel, Program Associate, EDUCAUSE 
Phone: 310-396-7033 
E-mail: vvogel () educause edu 
http://www.educause.edu/security 

________________________________

From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Wayne Samardzich
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 11:41 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Guest Accounts



Do any of you use a guest account for the public in your libraries or
elsewhere on campus?  The accounts would be for wired access to the
university network. 

 

We have a system that creates temporary guest accounts on our wireless
network.

 

Best,

 

Wayne 

 

Wayne Samardzich

Operations Supervisor

Information Services

Purdue Calumet

219 989  2307

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