"Kevin Koch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > MIT support staff believe that users will try to obtain credentials and > fail, whenever the Windows username isn't the same as the Kerberos > username.
I believe this is at most a problem with users who have never used NIM before and will go away as soon as they've seen it a few times. > Has there been any other user feedback about the password prompt dialog? > I propose improving the user understanding of the password prompt dialog by: > . Adding a line of explanation, as in Leash, above the Username line: > "Enter your Kerberos password." > . Restoring this Leash behavior: initialize the Username text entry field to > blank. > . Changing the text "Username" to the left of the text entry field to > "Kerberos\r\nUsername." I'm taking a bit of a stab in the dark here since I'm not a day-to-day user and may miss some subtleties of the interaction, but at least from the screenshots that I've seen and from this analysis, I think this is a bad idea. Jeff's analysis is correct for Stanford University: "Kerberos" as a label is likely to be confusing to our less technical users. We use an internal branding of "SUNet ID" for a variety of reasons and many users don't know and don't care what authentication technology is behind it. I could see the utility of a more general branding mechanism wherein we could prompt for SUNet IDs, other people prompt for Net IDs, and so forth. But just hard-coding Kerberos is a step backwards. The current behavior is superior to that. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ kfwdev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kfwdev
