How to create Wireless Guest Accounts for visitors at Wageningen UR

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How to create Wireless Guest Accounts for visitors at Wageningen UR

Introduction

Visitors of the Wageningen UR can have access to the wireless network. To connect you must create a wireless-guest account for your guest (one guest account per visitor).

Temporary guest accounts can be created by any Wageningen UR employee, are valid for up to 7 days and provide internet access (no WURnetwork access) on personal devices.

Guide

Step 1. Getting started

When you go to the https://wurguest.wurnet.nl website the logon screen appears (Figure 1):

Use your WUR username and password combination to log on to the site.

Step 2. Preferences

After logon a Preferences screen will appear:

Here you can change your preferences. If you want to receive a conformation E-mail for the guest accounts you will create you’ll have to enter your E-mail address and check the ‘Receive Email

Confirmation’ box. It’s also possible to change your default start page. Press the Save button to store your settings.

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Step 3. Create wireless guest account

To create a Guest user account click the Create option in the User Accounts section. You will see the following screen

The ‘First Name’ ‘Last Name’ and ‘Email Address’ are obligatory fields and should be filled with the name and email address of the guest you want to give access to. The account start and end date are by default filled with the current day. This can be changed to the appropriate date and time. The maximum period at this moment is 7 days.

After you click Add User you will see an ‘Account Created’ message:

Here you’ll have 3 options:

Print Account

Email Account

Create another Guest Account

Print Account and Create another Guest Account are selfexplanatory options, Email Account will send a mail to the mail address you provided in the Create Account option. An example of this mail can be found in the

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Step 4. Manage wireless guest account

To suspend, edit, view or print your created accounts you can go to the Manage Accounts page and use the icons at the right side of the page.

At the moment Wireless guest usage is a free service of Wageningen FB IT. This might be subject to change in the future.

Attention

Please bear in mind that you (ie the person who creates a guest account) are responsible for the actions the guest performs on the wireless network of Wageningen UR. Make sure the guest agrees to the terms and conditions of the Wageningen UR Network Policy. The purpose of this policy is to outline proper use of the Wageningen UR network

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Example message of email send to guest after using ‘email account’ option’

Dear guest,

Internet access through the Wageningen UR wireless network has been arranged for you. The following guest user account has been created:

Username: <e-mailaddress.guest>

Password: xxxxxxxx

Valid From: <date-time>

Valid To: <date-time>

Timezone: Europe/Amsterdam

Please bear in mind that by logging on to the wireless network of Wageningen UR you are agreeing to the terms and conditions of the Wageningen UR Network Policy. The purpose of this policy is to outline proper use of the Wageningen UR network.

The complete Wageningen UR Network Policy can be found at www.wireless.wur.nl/

Wireless Connections Please connect to the network with the SSID = WUR-guest. Then open a web browser. You will be automatically re-directed to the appropriate login page, where you can enter the credentials above.

Further Assistance If you require further assistance concerning wireless access, please contact the

Servicedesk IT on 0317-488888.

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Violations of the rights of any person or company protected by copyright, trade secret, patent or other intellectual property, or similar laws or regulations, including, but not limited to, the installation or distribution of "pirated" or other software products that are not appropriately licensed for use by Wageningen UR.

Unauthorized copying of copyrighted material including, but not limited to, digitization and distribution of photographs from magazines, books or other copyrighted sources, copyrighted music, and the installation of any copyrighted software for which Wageningen UR or the end user does not have an active license is strictly prohibited.

Exporting software, technical information, encryption software or technology, in violation of international or regional export control laws, is illegal. The appropriate management should be consulted prior to export of any material that is in question.

Introduction of malicious programs into the network or server (e.g., viruses, worms, Trojan horses, e-mail bombs, etc.).

Revealing your account password to others or allowing use of your account by others. This includes family and other household members.

Using a Wageningen UR computing asset to actively engage in procuring or transmitting material that is in violation of sexual harassment or hostile workplace laws in the user's local jurisdiction.

Making fraudulent offers of products, items, or services originating from any Wageningen UR account.

Making statements about warranty, expressly or implied, unless it is a part of normal job duties.

Effecting security breaches or disruptions of network communication. Security breaches include, but are not limited to, accessing data of which the guest is not an intended recipient or logging into a server or account that the guest is not expressly authorized to access, unless these duties are within the scope of regular duties. For purposes of this section, "disruption" includes, but is not limited to, network sniffing, pinged floods, packet spoofing, denial of service, and forged routing information for malicious purposes.

Port scanning or security scanning is expressly prohibited.

Executing any form of network monitoring which will intercept data not intended for the guest’s host

Circumventing user authentication or security of any host, network or account.

Interfering with or denying service to any user other than the guest's host (for example, denial of service attack).

Using any program/script/command, or sending messages of any kind, with the intent to interfere with, or disable, a user's terminal session, via any means, locally or via the

Internet/Intranet/Extranet.

Providing information about, or lists of, Wageningen UR employees to parties outside

Wageningen UR.

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Sending unsolicited email messages, including the sending of "junk mail" or other advertising material to individuals who did not specifically request such material (email spam).

Any form of harassment via email, telephone or paging, whether through language, frequency, or size of messages.

Unauthorized use, or forging, of email header information.

Solicitation of email for any other email address, other than that of the poster's account, with the intent to harass or to collect replies.

Creating or forwarding "chain letters", "Ponzi" or other "pyramid" schemes of any type.

Use of unsolicited email originating from within Wageningen UR's networks of other

Internet/Intranet/Extranet service providers on behalf of, or to advertise, any service hosted by Wageningen UR or connected via Wageningen UR's network.

Posting the same or similar non-business-related messages to large numbers of Usenet newsgroups (newsgroup spam).

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