On Oct 10, 2006, at 9:22 PM, Gregory Jon Schaffer wrote:

> Just curious, what does an auth agent add for Mac?  Currently our Macs
> and Linux boxes authenticate with the web page, I guess the only added
> value is that a user with these OS do not have to open a browser to  
> say
> run an email client.  Is this correct, or is there another  
> advantage of
> an auth only agent that I'm missing?
>
> Thanks,
> Greg

I believe that the eventual plan is to provide much of the same  
functionality as the Windows agent.  The timeline and plans for it  
have been rather vague.  Ideally it will be able to detect software  
updates from Apple, so we can mandate OS patches.

Michael Grinnell
Network Security Administrator
The American University