We've created (or are in the process of coding) a guest access system. Basically it's just a front end to create guest users in our Radius server (which the portal uses along with LDAP for authentication) that can be created "on-the-fly". All university faculty/staff will be able to create these guest accounts and hand them to their guests when the arrive on campus (thinking of conferences).
Of course, for non-conference style guests, they could simply be logged in by their friend who has a valid university login/password combination. Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Philippe Hanset [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April 5, 2007 11:17 AM To: Matt Ashfield Cc: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] support for non-WPA enabled machines? Matt, How does the Web portal do WPA-PSK for all visitors? Would you mind elaborting on this? Thanks. ---------------------------------- Philippe Hanset University of Tennessee, Knoxville ---------------------------------- On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Matt Ashfield wrote: > HI All > > We're considering two methods of accessing our wireless network. The first > would be 802.1x with WPA/TKIP encryption. The other is via a web-portal > using WPA-PSK (this will be used for guest access mostly, and for those who > don't want to configure 802.1x) > > The problem I see with this is that Win98/2K machines cannot do WPA. While > we don't officially support those OS's, we end up having to at times. Anyone > else run into this problem or do most of you offer an access method which > would allow those older OS's to access the wireless network. > > We're considering simply telling people to get up to date with their OS's. > > Matt > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ********** > 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/.
