It is great to hear what everyone is doing, it's a great confirmation of what we too are doing.
We have a website that allows anyone to create an account. It works by sending the user a website to visit after filling out some preliminary information and has at least a little verification in that the e-mail address is at least checked. In conjunction with this we have a sponsored account. We try to use this the most. It allows a department to create accounts for their guests and or allows the guest to make their own accounts on behalf of the department they are working for. All of these accounts are in our LDAP and RADIUS servers. Cheers, -----Original Message----- From: Cal Frye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 5:23 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] <SPAM> Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] wireless guest access Lee Badman wrote: > Anybody rethinking any of their sponsored guest/open access policies > because of CALEA concerns? Bingo. We are just beginning to roll out a means of provisioning sponsored accounts. Basically, a student, faculty, or staff member will be able to create N number of guest accounts with a duration of X days, limited rights granted to the network. It's expected that maximum values of N and X will vary with the role of the creator. Sponsored accounts will have a standard prefix to avoid collision with existing usernames, and passwords will be generated at account creation. These sponsored accounts will then in turn be permitted to authenticate to the network via Cisco NAC. All wired and wireless communications will pass through Cisco NAC, so we'll catch everybody. This will replace the built-in guest access provisions of Cisco NAC. We're doing this as a part of a self-service password reset application we were already considering -- that's the carrot to go along with the stick. -- Regards, -- Cal Frye, Network Administrator, Oberlin College www.calfrye.com, www.pitalabs.com "In American work places, bosses routinely snoop into personal e-mails and monitor our web-surfing practices. How did it come about that so many Americans have grown to accept such demeaning intrusions into our privacy?" -- Phil Rockstroh. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
