We use PacketFence as well; while faculty, staff, and student accounts are tied to AD, guest accounts reside only in packetfence. What is nice for us is accounts can have limited time frames and limited expirations to help prevent abuse.
Thomas Carter Network & Operations Manager Austin College From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Max McGrath Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2016 1:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] About the Guest wireless network and account We use PacketFence (https://packetfence.org/) as our NAC. It has built-in guest functionality and works fairly well. Guests can register either via SMS or email. Max -- Max McGrath [https://static.licdn.com/scds/common/u/img/webpromo/btn_profile_greytxt_80x15.png] <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/max-mcgrath/1b/3a6/a21> Network Administrator Carthage College 262-552-5512 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Linchuan Yang <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Dear All We are doing research for the wireless Guest network. Currently, we create temp employee account for the Guests in our AD and using a separate captive portal for the Guest login. For the group Guests (e.g. external event), we allow them to share the same guest account. However, we found that it’s not easy to manage and track the temp wireless guest accounts. Could you please share how your institute setup and manage the wireless guest network and the accounts? Thank you, and have a good afternoon. Yours, Linchuan Yang (Antony) Wireless Networking Analyst Network Assessment and Integration, IITS-Concordia University Tel: (514)848-2424 ext. 7664<tel:%28514%29848-2424%20ext.%207664> ********** 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/.
