On Nov 12, 2012, at 6:39 PM, Lee H Badman <lhbad...@syr.edu> wrote: > 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. >
How can you beat instant authentication with encryption over the air? Even an open network doesn't give that! I walk on a campus and my phone automatically switches from 3G to Wi-Fi for Data, not hitting my less than adequate quotas You are the hardest man to convince Lee ;-) Philippe >> 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/. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
