Josh,
One thing you may also want to consider is how you would handle api
authentication for institutions that use Shibboleth. There are secure ways to
do this, à-la the google 2-step verification or via an embedded browser, but
that would involve some additional fields in the database and
I think this question was sparked from my idea. I was wondering if an VCL image
could be used as a virtual desktop via PXE boot or some other boot process.
After reading the posts, I might want to rethink that due to security reasons.
I do like the aspect of having an basic image on the PCs