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
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