Visitor Internet Access

Visitor Internet Access

The ability to quickly provision a visitor account may be useful for creating test and guest accounts in Production.

VIA provides visitors access to services that use the ITS authentication infrastructure for access control.

  • https://www.hawaii.edu/via/

Visitor accounts created using VIA are not assigned a UH Username or a UH Number, however, they are available for authentication to any application that utilizes CAS.  Depending on the access controls coded into your application, this could be a useful way to quickly provision guest access to your application.

The LDAP attribute that identifies VIA as the system of record for Visitor Internet Access is:

Please note that this attribute is currently not included in the default CAS Attribute Release Policy.