On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:26 PM, dimpase <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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.
I'm seriously considering doing that. Then all issues of password resets disappear, and I can assume that any user has an account that has been verified by somebody else. William > 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. -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" 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/sage-edu?hl=en.
