> -----Original Message----- > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Luke > Jenkins > Sent: 02 October 2012 16:47 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] iPads, Labs/classroom use, 802.1x - Take > Two > > This question was asked 18 months ago by William from UTA, but > without much in the way of an answer. The replies immediately went > down a cloudpath rabbit hole, never to be seen again. > > Here is what William asked, and exactly the situation my team was > put in today: > > "Does anyone have experience managing iPads for classrooms (where > an iPad is given to each user and returned at the end of the > course, only for the next class to pick them up)? I'm interested > in how to manage credentials in an 802.1x environment (to ensure > actions on the network are attributable to the user at that time). > If someone has resolved this, I'd like to speak with them, we have > instructors working on proposals."
Hi Luke, A theoretical solution, off the cuff: * Premise: 1) iOS 6 .mobileconfig support an expiration date/time. 2) You have an open 'walled-garden' or 'captive portal' SSID that hosts your 802.1x set-up instructions or some such. * Method: 1) User goes to "open-SSID" (or maybe "open-SSID" is in a non-user-removable .mobileconfig pre-installed). 2) User "logs in" to webSite (this enables capture and verification of their credentials). 3) webSite dynamically generates .mobileconfig with: * user credentials included * expiration time in: one hour / next standard lesson end time / user's specific lesson end time from your DB ...and sends this to iPad. 4) User has to select "802.1x-SSID", and does their course things. 5) .mobileconfig expires, iPad is "safe" ...but does profile expiration disconnect the user? (if not could be done out of band via cronjob/scheduled task to wireless system? ...or just encouraging the user to press the sleep button on the iPad when done). Kind regards, James -- James J J Hooper Senior Network Specialist, University of Bristol http://wireless.bristol.ac.uk -- ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
