Does anyone keep stats on how much your Eduroam efforts get used? Like, other than just being in the club, is it really providing benefits that an easy-to-use guest network wouldn't? Not being snarky, but genuinely wondering.
Lee Badman On Nov 12, 2012, at 18:27, "Jeff Kell" <jeff-k...@utc.edu> wrote: > Hey Julian, > > We recently went through this after cranking up eduroam officially this > past fall. We have similar points of confusion, plus a bonus. > > Our email addresses are first-l...@utc.edu unless there are conflicts, > in which case we use a middle initial or a suffix. > > Our official "UTCid" is a rather arbitrary string (3 letters, 3 numbers, > where that came from don't ask me, it was back in the "no-SSNs" conversion). > > The directory key / userID is in fact the UTCid, and is typically used > as a login for everything. It's also the Active Directory ID. > > And now the bonus... the AD domain is in fact utc.tennessee.edu (we're > a "branch" of the state's tennessee.edu domain), so there's already some > confusion as to using the tennessee.edu versus utc.edu. Even worse... > there are root forest entries for ut...@tennessee.edu as well as > @utc.tennessee.edu. And of course UTK started the whole eduroam thing, > and they're already taking tennessee.edu as local :( although they still > take utk.edu as well. > > So we more or less got stuck with ut...@utc.edu to avoid the > domain/realm confusion with the big orange one. > > I would advise you rig up your local .1X to authenticate with your > fully-qualified eduroam username, just so users can consistently login > with the same credentials (assuming you're not using eduroam for > production .1X). > > Jeff > > On 11/12/2012 6:11 PM, Julian Y Koh wrote: >> So we're looking at an eduroam deployment here, and one question that has >> come up is one of credentials. Here at NU, we have 2 identifiers - the >> NetID and the alias. All of the directories and the like are keyed off of >> the NetID, which does not have to be the same as the alias. Top-level email >> addresses take the form <alias>@northwestern.edu. >> >> Under a basic default eduroam deployment, a user would use >> <netid>@northwestern.edu as his/her username to authenticate to the wireless >> network. This is not 100% ideal from an end user point of view, though, >> since that could potentially lead to some confusion since at least here, >> netid rarely is the same as alias. Obviously, at some schools, netid = >> alias, so this is a moot point, but have other schools encountered >> support/documentation issues because of this? >> >> As an alternative, has anyone looking into using a subdomain for the realm? >> i.e., <netid>@eduroam.northwestern.edu? >> >> I tried going through the FAQs and documentation at >> <http://www.eduroamus.org/>, and there is some mention of avoiding >> subdomains at <http://www.eduroamus.org/node/29>. >> >> Personally, I think with good enough documentation we should be able to do >> the standard <netid>@northwestern.edu without a lot of trouble, but we also >> need to do due diligence and explore these options. :) >> >> Thanks!! >> > > ********** > 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/.
