Can we please consider making this OpenID? It would really help to integrate everything. I made a proposal about it some time ago, and currently SugarLabs wiki has OpenID, which by the way, is a great.
Sebastian 2008/12/2 Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Tomeu and Browse engineers, > > Talking with Martin L recently he mentioned that you have some ideas on > how the XO can communicate its identity (e.g. serial # and maybe user > name) with a web server. We're mostly thinking of the school server as > the server side but a more generic solution may be acceptable. > > The main idea is to eliminate the need for students to ever type in a > user name and password. e.g. they should be able to just hit the Backup > and Restore URL and see their files without having to login or find > their serial number in a list. > > That's one example. I would also like any Web server to be able to > extract the XO identity and use it in CGI (e.g. PHP) for processing. > > It should also be encrypted so that the XO cannot be spoofed. e.g. only > the XO which backed up and can see or restore its own files (possibly > with an admin override). > > I put a stub of a requirement for it on our roadmap here: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap#Single_Sign_on_from_Browse > > Do you have any ideas or designs for how we can achieve that? > > Comments and questions welcome. > > Thanks, > > Greg S > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > Sugar@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > -- Sebastian Silva Iniciativa FuenteLibre http://blog.sebastiansilva.com/ _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar