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

[Jeffery MacEachern]

+1 for (a). As a personal note, at my elementary school we were
responsible for our own credentials from quite a young age.
 - Jeffery MacEachern



On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 09:37, Marc Mauri Alloza
<marcmaurialloza at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think option a is the best. I think make students responsible of
> their login data is educative, even if they are too young.
>
> 2011/7/14 Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>:
>> On Thursday, July 14, 2011 20:09:08 you wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> having seen a number of other school systems, this is how it is always done.
>> this way students can move around between computers and not have to sit at the
>> same one each time. it also prevents computers from having to be specifically
>> configured.
>>
>> also, there should be no reason for a KDialog. the log-in widgets could sit
>> right inside the containment itself using Plasma::Widgets. :)
>>
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