From: PNIXON@ci.somerville.ma.us
Date: Fri Jan 10 2003 - 15:29:30 CST
Ahhh, okay :)
I was thinking of setting one of these up for my Technicians also so they
can register someone who is having issues with their password.
Julie is pretty close to us too in Cambridge.
--Pat
> -----Original Message-----
> From: King, Michael [mailto:MKing@bridgew.edu]
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 3:48 PM
> To: 'netreg@southwestern.edu'
> Subject: RE: NetReg: A few NetReg/DHCP questions
>
>
> 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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