Regarding login authentication of students by the containment...in KDE Plasma Educational Desktop

[Sinny Kumari]

On 7/14/11, LucaTringali <TRINGALINVENT at libero.it> wrote:
> Hi Karan,
> I think option a is the best. Remembering username and password is not so
> difficult. Maybe there could be problems with little childs, but the teacher
> can have the list of user/password and help the childs if they forget them.
+1
> Or
> the teacher can simply reset the password of some students if forgotten.
>
> Luca Tringali
>
> ----Messaggio originale----
> Da: wizard.karan at gmail.com
> Data: 14/07/2011 16.39
> A: "Aaron J. Seigo"<aseigo at kde.org>, "Aleix Pol"<aleixpol at kde.org>, <plasma-
> devel at kde.org>, <kde-edu at kde.org>
> Ogg: Regarding login authentication of students by the containment...in KDE
> Plasma Educational Desktop
>
> Hi
> Sooo.. when the student logs in, the custom containment in each student
> desktop has to authenticate the student with the local classroom server...
> So we have 2 ways of authenticating the student with the server using kde-
> telepathy:
> a) We expect the student to remember his username and password, which he
> will
> enter in a KDialog popup box by the containment, and if he enters the
> username/password correctly( which will be verified by telepathy ), then the
> KDialog box will disappear and his previous saved layout will be fetched
> from
> the server.
> OR
> b) We hardcode the username and password for each student's machine, so that
> a
> desktop A will always have the same username and password, when desktop A
> loads
> its containment, then its hardcoded account will be used to authenticate it
> with the classroom server, and we then get the student's id number(using a
> KDialog) to fetch his layout from the server.
> Option b seems suitable, because students may not remember their details
> properly...where as in option b they only have to remember their id-number,
> which in case a student forgets, the teacher would have a backup copy of it.
> but the BIG Problem with option b is that the a student can type some other
> student's id number and get other student's previous layout, instead of his
> own...this will not happen in option a.
> In both the above cases, we will have to setup the individual
> accounts(whether
> they belong to the desktops or the students themselves) initially at the
> time
> of classroom environment setup.
> So I suggest that I continue with option a)......any comments or
> suggestions?
> --
> regards,
> Karan Pratap Singh
>
>
>
>
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