Astrid
Trusted Agent Program
TAG
University of Chicago
High Level
Was designed to address 3 problems
Faculty coming in the summer want to use CHALK and email
Don't have true HR, have payroll system. So people don't appear for 2 weeks or a month
So getting an account right away is a problem. People need access day 1 not day 20
When people come into the campus they want ? access
Trusted agent is distributed authorization. Pete Jackson to the deans. There are 70 trusted agents
Dean appoints trusted agent or 2
Trusted agent can assign
Temp accounts is for folks who are not employees of university.
Trusted agent can give temp accounts
Trusted agents can give temp accounts – up to one year
Meeting IDs
Each meeting ID lasts one day long and expires at midnight
Preview accounts?
Temp accounts – problem that different people need different services.
Some resolved ad hoc. Some resolved by given a group a di
639 temp accounts
since inception been widely used
Problems we've had.
When trusted agent leaves a dept but not the university that's a problem
Need a solution
Q: do trusted agents have to go through certification?
A: Astrid goes to everyone's office
When it grows, it gets harder to manage
Help once per year updates, try to keep track
Q: BOB : we have similar program
For temporary wireless access.
No training needed. We are looking to see if it creates abuse.
Q: Do you also have classic sponsored account?
A: we had that before we had TAG. Was a piece of paper.
Caused problems w accounts left open and we didn't know what to do with them.