Re: NetReg: POP Authentication

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From: Robert Lowe (Robert.H.Lowe@lawrence.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 26 2004 - 11:41:07 CST

Dieudonne, Jose wrote:

Jose,

> I agree with you.
> The registration form should only have username and password?
> I created a new registration that asks for room # and more...

How reliable will that information be? Why not pull it from a
backend data source known to be good? Greater accuracy and less
hassle for the end user.

-Robert

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Meuleman [mailto:dmeuleman@defiance.edu]
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 9:56 AM
> To: netreg@southwestern.edu
> Subject: Re: NetReg: POP Authentication
>
> My second response is to just comment the call of the authenticate()
> function in register.cgi. But, then you have no way of being sure if
> the
> username is even a valid thing to enter into the dhcpd.conf file. If
> somebody put their full name (with a space) or used a #, dhcpd would
> fail
> upon restarting.
>
> My first response is why you would run NetReg at all? If you don't care
>
> who is on your network, just use a plain-old DHCP server.
>
> Dave
>
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:15:27 -0500, Dieudonne, Jose
> <dieudonj@arcadia.edu>
> wrote:
>
>
>>To all,
>>Would netreg works without authentication?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Jose
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Steve Hideg [mailto:hideg@saintmarys.edu]
>>Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 6:37 AM
>>To: netreg@southwestern.edu
>>Cc: Adam Ray
>>Subject: Re: NetReg: POP Authentication
>>
>>The netreg machine. register.cgi authenticates using the credentials
>>provided by the user on the registration form.
>>
>>At 11:31 PM -0600 1/25/04, Adam Ray wrote:
>>
>>>What machine does the authentication, the netreg machine or the dhcp
>>
>>client?
>>
>>>
>>>---------
>>>Adam Ray
>>>atray@jnaray.net
>>>
>>>

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