Ivar,
The Pop-up gui has been enabled in Tadpole Laptops since they came
out. We have 45 Tadpoles in a classroom enviroment and I don't know of any
student that has ever discovered the feature. I applaud Sun for making this
capability available. The benefits far exceed the risk. There are many ways
to control firmware delivery to DTU's. Also if you read the Admin guide. You
can remotely load all the configuration data. Below is a snippet from the
Admin and Installation Guide. Looks like Sun did their homework.
To help avoid error-prone manual entry of configuration data for deployments
where pre-configuration is required, you can use the Pop-up GUI to download
a configuration to a Sun Ray DTU from a file on a server via TFTP, as
indicated in FIGURE 7-7.
The following keywords correspond to configuration values that can be set
from Pop-up GUI menus (see "Pop-up GUI" on page 113). To group items that
are logically related, some of the keywords take the form <family>.<field>.
TABLE 7-4 Pop-up GUI Menu Configuration Values
VPN/IPsec Submenu
vpn.enabled
enable toggle
vpn.peer
remote gateway name/IP address
vpn.group
VPN group
vpn.key
VPN key
vpn.user
Xauth user
vpn.passwd
Xauth password
vpn.pin
PIN lock for use of user/passwd
vpn.dhgroup
Diffie-Hellman group to use
vpn.lifetime
Lifetime of IKE connection
Dave
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ivar Janmaat
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 9:30 AM
To: SunRay-Users mailing list
Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] Sun Ray Server 4 Update 2 Open Beta
I would like to advise any educational institution on this list to have a
close look at this new Pop-up GUI "feature".
In my opinion it is a very bad "feature" for "hostile" environments like
kiosk locations, classrooms and libraries.
Since I believe most Sun Rays are placed in this kind of environments I
would advice all of you to inform Sun about how this would effect your
upgrade cost. I was told by Sun that you have to visit every SunRay to set
the password on this Pop-up GUI or leave the configuration unlocked.
I think this will dramatically increase the cost of upgrading or
administration......
Please inform Sun about your thoughts on this.
Ivar
Bob Doolittle wrote:
> Kurt Schreiner wrote:
>
>> Wow! What a security "feature"! If this will be the same in the
>> released version I'll have to stay with older SRSS and firmware as
>> long as possible and plan on migrating my SunRays ASAP to PCs or some
>> other ThinClients, but ones which have no <Please change my
>> configuration> "feature".
>> I really can't understand why anyone would render SunRays useless
>> with such a silly "feature"!
>
>
> Like OttoM said yesterday, just complaining to this list about it does
> little good. Complaining to the beta aliases would be much more
> likely to have the effect you want - of changing this behavior before
> the product is officially released.
>
> -Bob
>
> Disclaimer: opinions expressed here are my own, not my employer's
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