Michael Clark wrote:
>
> What (if any) are the concerns with having an account's password and user
> ID posted on a web page? Would someone be able to change the "Your Name"
> and "Your email address" fields with them? So if my school set up a web
> page to encourage people to join our team, could someone come along and
> usurp our work? Also, what would happen if someone changed (or deleted) the
> existing UserID and password in the middle of a LL test? Thanks very much,
> Michael
>
> Michael Clark
> http://michaelclark.simplenet.com/welcome.html
> Center for Public Administration and Policy
> http://www.cpap.vt.edu
> Only 415 days until the year 2000!
The secure-yet-still-automated way to do this is to have a public
html form that takes the new persons data and wraps it up and sends
you an email containing another url that you can click on from
inside your e-mail system which will process the user's membership.
One working out of the system, then many one-click approvals, rather
than simply having the applicants e-mail you and needing to
do boring data entry, and you still have control unlike if you
just put the password out.
Have teams been implemented? Theyt could follow the practice
of "web rings" and have an "inner circle" who have approval power;
applications to join can get sent to all approvers, or round-robined
to each in turn, or a designates one or two. There is no limit
to possible subtletl when it comes to dreaming up a user interface.
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