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Re: authentication (was re: Mac imaging)

> Message: 11
> However, a larger percentage of my customers have felt a legal
> obligation to limit access to computing resources. Specifically, in
> one case, death threats were made towards then-president Clinton, and
> the Secret Service wanted to be able to determine who sent the email.
> Other cases have dealt with stalking, sexual harassment, all sorts of
> nasty stuff- and almost without variation the result was a secured,
> authenticated lab environment.
>
> Anyway- I'm curious as to how the list members running open labs deal
> with these liabilities- especially those in large (>10,000 student)
> environments.
>
I have written an AppleScript which "forces" authentication to a fileserver
(= Linux server running netatalk for AppleShare services). Basically it
displays a non-movable dialog prompting for username and password, then
attempts to connect to the server using that information. If it gets an
error, it displays the error then goes back to the login screen. It does a
few other nifty things as well, but it's main purpose is to handle
authentication and ensure the right people are using the labs (to keep Joe
Cool from the street from coming in and using the lab).
More information on the scripts is available at:
http://www.uwrf.edu/~rr43/applescript/
I haven't updated the source code that's on the site in a few months so it's
slightly out of date. If you want more information on the code, feel free
to email me.

Robert

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Robert J Rust
Microcomputer Support Specialist
UW - River Falls IT Services
(715) 425-4357
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