Honestly all this guy needs to do is write a web app that pairs users to machines. If he has users floating around, then he needs to monitor ldap for user authentication and logoff.
He has all the tools he needs external from gntp in order to make an awesome growl server like I described to a few people a few years ago. Chris On May 28, 2011, at 9:23 AM, Peter Hosey <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 28, 2011, at 06:46:17, [email protected] wrote: >> As I understand it, I think the problem here is because growl as a >> notification system has been designed such that everything belongs to an >> owner (user). > > Indeed, quite a few problems/requests/questions in the past year or so have > come out of sysadmins wanting to integrate Growl into a more controlled > networked and multiple-user environment, while Growl is designed from the > ground up for single users. Multiple-user usage simply never occurred to us; > the developers who designed it (I came in later) designed it for themselves. > >> Should (optional) user fields be added to the protocol to allow for >> operation in user-less environments? >> This could be pretty cool. Eg. what if a bug-tracking website could send me >> notifications about bug changes, as it does with emails currently? PMs from >> forums? possibilities… > > This is already possible as a custom header that Growl ignores, but it would > function only as metadata; it wouldn't be useful for authentication or > authorization. > > Adding support for usernames for those purposes in a backward-compatible way > is much harder. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Growl Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
