[committee] Contacting Guild/BITS, was Re: [wheel] Committee Meeting - 18 Hour Warning

[Felix von Perger]

Here's the message to Kelvin, no response so far.


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Subject: 	Access to Guild/UWA LDAP
Date: 	Thu, 7 Jun 2018 17:07:40 +0800
From: 	Felix von Perger <frekk at ucc.asn.au>
To: 	kelvin.lee at guild.uwa.edu.au



Hi Kelvin,

I am working on a project in the University Computer Club to upgrade our
website and in the process I am building a system to allow members to
sign up online. In order to verify that our members are indeed students
at UWA and members of the Student Guild, we collect student numbers of
all members upon signing up.

Currently, these details must be validated when people sign up in person
(currently using only paper forms) by checking their student card. If
signups were to be made possible online, validating details could be
done programmatically with access to the appropriate database.

I believe that the UCC has had access in the past to the UWA LDAP server
(if not intentionally then by accident) which has since been revoked.
Would you be able to point me in the right direction for obtaining
official access to this database? (if this is indeed the best way to
look up student numbers to verify names and guild memberships).

Furthermore, as part of the overhaul of the club's membership system, I
would be interested to investigate the possibility of using a card
reader (as used by the shops around campus that offer Guild discounts)
connected to this database to validate student cards when doing signups
in person. Would you be able to offer any advice as to the best way to
go about this?

Thank you for your time.

Kind regards,

Felix von Perger
UCC Secretary 2018


On 16/06/18 16:10, Nick Bannon wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 08:16:58PM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 04:00:01PM +0800, Felix von Perger wrote:
>>>       ## Secretary's Report [...]
>>>         - Sent an email to Guild IT (kelvin.lee at guild.uwa.edu.au) asking about LDAP related stuff.
> No reply, I take it?
>
> Could you forward your question through?
>
>>>       - Sent email to Andrew Shugg [yautja] about access to Guild server room.
>>>         - Probably could also ask about LDAP at some point.
> [...]
>
> No further reply, I take it?
> I see he's got a "Business Information & Technology Services" signature -
> that was "University IT", but the structure isn't clear to me.
>
> I'd like to followup our April questions about ServiceNow and DNS
> delegation...
>
> Nick.
>

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