On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 12:43:13PM +0000, Phil Mayers wrote:
On 24/03/17 11:41, Matthew Newton wrote:
Of course then eduroam CAT/802.1x-config.org works for Windows, Linux and MacOS/iOS, and also Android if you can somehow get the App on first. Grr, Google.
Or do you mean the chicken/egg problem on wifi-only devices?
This. You can easily set up a captive setup network with installers and instructions on it, but no trivial way to get someone to install an (properly authenticated) app. If you manage somehow to give access to the Play Store, then you've not got a captive portal any more. Or you have to ask them to permit installing non-official apps, which is a) a big security risk for them (lots of people will never disable it) and b) you may as well just give them instructions on configuring the wireless themselves. There's just no reason for an app to be required at all, if only the O/S had a built in configuration profile method. Cheers, Matthew -- Matthew Newton, Ph.D. <mcn4@leicester.ac.uk> Systems Specialist, Infrastructure Services, I.T. Services, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom For IT help contact helpdesk extn. 2253, <ithelp@le.ac.uk>