From: King, Michael (MKing@bridgew.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 10 2003 - 14:47:58 CST
Yes, that's exactly what it is.
(Hey, your right up the street from me)
Michael King
Telecommunications Support Specialist
Bridgewater State College
(508) 531-2528
(508) 531-4528 Fax
mking@bridgew.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: PNIXON@ci.somerville.ma.us [mailto:PNIXON@ci.somerville.ma.us]
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 1:31 PM
To: netreg@southwestern.edu
Subject: RE: NetReg: A few NetReg/DHCP questions
I'd be interested in seeing the code for that webpage also? Is it just a
register.cgi that's edited to remove the authentication piece?
--Pat
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jennifer Mehl [mailto:mehl@wi.mit.edu]
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 9:39 AM
> To: netreg@southwestern.edu
> Subject: Re: NetReg: A few NetReg/DHCP questions
>
>
>
> On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 06:54 PM, Michael King wrote:
>
> > Jennifer,
> >
> > Just a quick question on Point 2.
> >
> > How do you intend for the helpdesk worker to get the
> MAC address?
>
> The HelpDesk staff would go to each machine, and go through the same
> steps a user would-- set the computer up to use DHCP, get the "bogus"
> lease, and then go to a separate registration page where they would
> enter only the LDAP username of the person whose computer they are
> registering. Then reboot the machine and get the new lease.
>
>
> > NetReg, at it's simplest level, is just
> creating host entries in the
> > ISC
> > Dhcp server's dhcpd.conf file. The front-end webpages,
> pull the MAC
> > address
> > out automatically when a unregistered client hits the webpage.
> > Do you intend for your users to bring the machines to
> the helpdesk?
> > (this
> > is the end result of where you seeming to be going)
>
> Vice versa-- we'll be sending the Help Desk staff to the
> machines. :-)
> We're a fairly small institution compared to many of you
> (we have ~800
> hosts) and we intend to do the DHCP roll-out over several months.
>
> > I have created a webpage, that instead of Username /
> password for text
> > boxes, it has MAC address and Username, but I protect this
> page, and
> > only
> > use it when I'm manually entering a device that cannot display a
> > webpage. I
> > do not allow my helpdesk desk to access it, mainly because
> I did not
> > create
> > any error checking for it, so the potential for a non-valid
> entry to
> > take
> > down the server exists.
>
> A web page like that would also be useful to us for registration of
> machines without web browsers, etc. Would you be willing to
> share your
> code with us?
>
> >
> > Mike
> >
>
> Thanks again,
> Jennifer
>
>
>
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-netreg@southwestern.edu
> > [mailto:owner-netreg@southwestern.edu]On Behalf Of Jennifer Mehl
> > Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 4:24 PM
> > To: netreg@southwestern.edu
> > Subject: NetReg: A few NetReg/DHCP questions
> >
> >
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I've got the LDAP authentication working well with NetReg. What a
> > great piece of software-- thanks to all who contributed to the code!
> >
> > I have a few more questions for you all:
> >
> > 1) Is anyone encrypting the communications between the
> NetReg scripts
> > and the LDAP server using SSL? If so, could you explain how to set
> > this up?
> >
> > 2) For our initial DHCP roll-out, our Help Desk will be registering
> > machines. I'd like to modify the LDAP registration model
> so that the
> > Help Desk staff can sit at the computer to be registered, enter only
> > the LDAP username of the person since they obviously do not have
> > passwords. This would allow us to register machines
> ourselves at the
> > beginning, and then roll it out to users after the initial
> deployment
> > is finished.
> >
> > Any suggestions? Is anyone doing anything like this now?
> >
> > 3) Is anyone doing DHCP failover with their NetReg boxes?
> I'm curious
> > how to set this up so that the known host info in
> dhcpd.conf would be
> > replicated to the second box. Are you all putting NetReg on the
> > secondary/backup DHCP box as well? Just curious how you
> all are doing
> > this.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your feedback and ideas.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Jennifer
> > ---
> > Jennifer Mehl
> > Network Engineer, IT - Network Services
> > Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (MIT)
> > 5 Cambridge Center
> > Cambridge MA 02142
> >
> > 617.258.8930 voice
> > 617.258.5121 fax
> >
> > mehl@wi.mit.edu
> >
> >
> >
>
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