IP identifies a node on the network, not person, not even machine.
Someone can "steal" your IP when you are offline. A machine can be used by different people at different time. Some machines have randomly assigned, non-static IPs. IPs can be changed subject to network restructuring. Network planners and dspace administrators are often not the same people. For these many reasons it seems using IP as authentication is not secure and flexible enough in general situations. Regards, Allen Lam. HKU Hub Administrator, http://hub.hku.hk Andrew Marlow wrote: > Hello, > > please excuse my ignorance about dspace, I am new here. What do people > think to the idea of identifying users by their IP address? This would > be an alternative to logging in via the traditional username+password. > This would be associated with an administrative function that registered > user groups with IP address ranges. > > -- > Regards, > > Andrew M. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
