Wireless certificates

Hi everyone!

I'm new here, but I know this isn't the place for introductions.


I'm on a college wireless network right now and to get online I had to go through a series of steps.

1. Go online and activate my student account for wireless activity
2. Add the SSID for the school and change some settings around, so that the network would prompt me my user name, password, and domain
3. This is an actual dialogue box, not a splash screen.

I was just curious how this was set up, as I've never ran into something like this before.

I'm connected now, I'm not having any problems. Just wondering how this could be accomplished.

Thanks!