Ronald,

I don't think we're looking at a cert problem, as we're not even getting
the weblogin page, and usually the hang up is the java client starting up.
When the problem appears, we cannot even get to the point of inputting
credentials.

Thanks to you and everyone for the input.
--Homer Manila, CISSP
Information Security Engineer
Office of Information Technology
American University
202-885-2209

* AU IT will never ask for your password via e-mail.
* Don't share your password with anyone!



From:   "King, Ronald A." <[email protected]>
To:     [email protected]
Date:   08/11/2010 04:56 PM
Subject:        Re: OSX Java issues with weblogin
Sent by:        Cisco Clean Access Users and Administrators
            <[email protected]>



I have been troubleshooting a number of issues related to MACs.  They tend
to be related to JAVA and/or the certificate we use from ipsCA.
      ·         Most notably, Safari locks up as it tries to validate the
      certificate. I changed the Java Preferences to “Run applets in their
      own process.”
      ·         We have had users install the latest root certificate for
      ipsCA.
            o   According to Cisco, if the root certificate is not present
            or invalid, nothing happens.  That is no pop ups, no
            authentication completion.  It just kicks the user back to a
            login.
            o   Cisco has me verify the root certificate on their MAC
            matches the one on the CAS.
Hope this helps.


Ronald King
Security Engineer
Norfolk State University
Marie V. McDemmond Center for Applied Research
Suite 401
700 Park Ave.
Norfolk, Virginia  23504
Phone:  757-823-3918
Fax: 757-823-2128
Email: [email protected]
http://security.nsu.edu

From: Cisco Clean Access Users and Administrators [
mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Homer Manila
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 1:50 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: OSX Java issues with weblogin



We are experiencing random problems on OSX's weblogin. In general, many of
our OSX (and iPad) users are unable to login successfully, even when fully
up-to-date, java and OSX-wise. We are forced to grant exemptions.

We don't mandate any requirements for OSX users except for authentication
(through weblogin, we don't push the agent yet), but users will experience
one or a combination of the following errors when attempting to do so:
      weblogin will work in Firefox, but not in Safari
      weblogin will work in Safari, but not Firefox
      weblogin page will give out java applet error messages (error that
      most get)


We're on 4.7.2.

Anybody else getting this problem?

--Homer Manila, CISSP
Information Security Engineer
Office of Information Technology
American University
202-885-2209

* AU IT will never ask for your password via e-mail.
* Don't share your password with anyone!

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