Have you already addressed this with OIT? What was the resolution and who gave it to you? I would assume you spoke with ETS instead of STS because you are an employee. This should cause some eyebrows to be raised, especially in operations and operations securities because that list of netids to macs is one of the first we go to when we notice strange behavior coming from a host. We ask "Who's logged into the machine?" That's a definite security risk if these machines are supposed to be lab machines yet are required to authenticate. It's the normal policy that lab machines don't need to authenticate (they're restricted enough already).
There are viable options to fix that. One would be to add the MACs to a list in the system that is refreshed more often than the once-a-day system (say, once per hour). I don't know if that's possible but will be happy to ask around when I get to work tomorrow. The other option would be for the McKay building run their own wireless signal with a WEP key for those laptops specifically, and connect that router to a port on a lab vlan. Set the router to an access-point only configuration and you will have a group of laptops that are treated as lab machines (restrictive enough to not have to authenticate). I don't know which is more viable, but either could be better than allowing a student to have their NETid associated with a laptop for the rest of the day. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jb Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 4:13 PM To: BYU Unix Users Group Subject: Re: [uug] BYU net authentication. As long as we're bashing the system. I teach two morning classes in the McKay's wireless lab. So, at 8 or 9 in the morning on the days I teach, my students are the first to get the pb's and dells from the cart and they have to authenticate. For the rest of the day, that MAC is associated with their Route Y ID. I understand BYU's desire to save campus resources for members of the campus community, but I would also appreciate a little more thought sometimes. -jb Michael Moore wrote: >>Isn't it now once a day? That's what I thought. "You will be required to >>authenticate daily." is what I think it reads. >> >> > >I think wireless is once a day, per building. Wired is once a week in >on-campus housing, don't know about elsewhere. > >-- >Michael Moore >------------------------------- >www.stuporglue.com -- Articles, software and computer tutorials. >www.stuporglue.org -- Donate your used computer to a student that needs it. > >-------------------- >BYU Unix Users Group >http://uug.byu.edu/ > >The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their >author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. >___________________________________________________________________ >List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
