On Tuesday, February 7, 2012 12:37:38 AM UTC+8, A. Jorge Garcia wrote: > > Jason Grout <> wrote: >> >> On 2/6/12 9:28 AM, Andrey Novoseltsev wrote: >> > It seems that there is email field in users >> > profile, can't it be used to reset the password? >> >> We should have that feature; a big +1. Dan Drake worked a bit on also >> using email to confirm account registration. In fact, if email address >> is required (a setting in the notebook admin page), a "Forgot password" >> link appears at the bottom of the login page (see sage.cs.drake.edu, for >> example). I don't know how well it works, though. Of course, as >> always, patches are welcome! >> >> Should we require email addresses on sagenb.org? >> >> Jason >> >> Requiring email addresses could be a problem. Many schools block email > clients. So, the student would not be able to confirm the email until they > got home. Creating accounts the first day of class would be a hassle. It's > so easy now. I say leave it the way it is! >
sure enough an OpenID account is easier to deal with than a local account. I'd rather try to require all new accounts on sagenb.org to be OpenID. For spammers it'd be more hassle to use. On the other hand it would need a list of allowed OpenID providers... Dima > Thanx, > A. Jorge Garcia > Applied Math and CompSci > http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com > http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 > Sent via DROID on Verizon Wireless > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-edu/-/5pR6avMS-HwJ. 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/sage-edu?hl=en.
