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Unregistered
05-10-2007, 04:46 PM
OSCR Folks,

Greetings! Here in the Computer and Graphics Facility in the Chemistry Department, we frequently are asked to help faculty members configure their laptops to access UA WiFi. Normally this isn't a problem, but there's been a minor issue that's been worrying me: when I'm configuring their settings, I use my personal netid and password to test the connection (as I don't know their netid or password, and they usually drop the computer off so they're not available).

I'm concerned, as it seems that Windows remembers this, and auto-authenticates in the future, even after restarts, with the same credentials. Obviously, their connections are logged and I would hate for my username to be associated with the online activities of some of the faculty (not that they'd be doing anything against university policies, of course).

Surely you understand my concern.

Is there any way to have Windows forget one's UAWiFi login credentials so when I deliver the computer back to the faculty member, they're made to authenticate using their own netid?

Thanks!

dparm
05-10-2007, 08:17 PM
There was a thread about this a while back...it's possible to create a script that clears the PEAP certificate/credentials every time the computer is rebooted. You could also run the script manually.

I can't find the thread, but try looking around -- it was Jean Barrett, a former employee, who figured it out.

picch
05-14-2007, 01:58 AM
I think it was just a batch file. Didn't we have that on one of our laptops for a while, so the same Tech Lead wasn't always logged into UAWiFi? I thought I saved on my desktop, but I can only find my slipstreaming script. :(

If someone can provide me with an article or steps of what have to be done to clear it out, I'll rewrite the script.