I know it's not what you asked but the Aastra phones can easily do this.

Their support for push/pull XML is perfectly suited for this kind of
thing.

You could even send the phone a whole different set of softkeys and
menus based on who logs in.

John

On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 19:03 -0500, Leif Madsen wrote:
> Hey John,
> 
> Sorry to not be very clear there.
> 
> I'm just using the phone as an input device to login to Asterisk. This
> is in a clustered system, so what happens is everyone is assigned an
> extension number and pin. When you sit down at one of the phones in
> the office, you enter #4XXX (where 4XXX is your extension), enter your
> pin, and then Asterisk will send calls destined for that extension to
> that device -- the phone doesn't know anything about this.
> 
> What the customer is looking for is the ability to see what extension
> is logged into the phone by changing the line name display.
> 
> I'll look into the 2.0+ firmware by reading the administration guide
> and see if there isn't something that doesn't jump out at me. In the
> mean time, if anyone happens to find it before me, feel free to let me
> know where to start looking :)
> 
> Thanks!
> Leif.
> 
> On Jan 18, 2008 3:58 PM, John Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Just out of curiosity; how are you "logging into" the phone?
> >
> > Do you mean logging into the Asterisk server using the phone as the
> > input device?
> >
> > I'm not trying to be a nit-picker, I'm just curious if there is some
> > login feature or application on the phone itself which I'm not aware of.



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