Re: [SLE] MAC address authentication

The Tuesday 2004-08-10 at 15:40 -0700, nhaas wrote:

I am trying to make an authentication server. We are a campus that requires a MAC address in a database to use the web.

Mmm. You should remember that many cards allow changing the MAC address by software; therefore an authentication based on MAC alone can be fooled easily enough. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson