iPAQ LAWN Authentication HOW-TO

We are working on a more perminent solution to this, but for now you can use the lynx binary below. Also below are links to the OIT FAQ discussing connecting to LAWN. You will need to get the encryption key from OIT (or ask me at the weekly meeting) ... pebrown@cc.gatech.edu

Using Lynx w/ SSL:

This page has a hacked version of lynx (see http://lynx.browser.org) that allow for you to specify the HTTP_REFERER string sent to the web server. For security reasons, I did not want to but the binary or the md5sum's on the swiki. It was built on an iPAQ H3600 running Linux (the Familiar disto with Intimate). This binary does not require the extra terminfo mess that the previous binary required. You simply need the binary and the lynx.cfg file in /etc. To use this, save the lynx.cfg file to /etc/ on the iPAQ and then run the following commands (or use this script lawnauth.sh):

  # cd /root/
  # echo "https://auth.lawn.gatech.edu/login.html" > lynx_referer
  # echo "userid=acmeid&password=passwd&--" | \
    lynx -post_data https://auth.lawn.gatech.edu/cgi-bin/login.pl

OIT LAWN Info:

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