Pulling this back to the list.
Ethan
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Hi Ethan, Thanks for Your reply,
but there is probably a misconception: The client users are not sitting on
the same client pc, so there is no way to give them restricted user accounts
on their own machines at home.
My idea was to create some kind of login, that gives all msn, icq, yahoo or
aol account information during the specified session. I also thought to use
a server-hosted link to a preset meebo-multimessenger-weblogin, but meebo
was sold to google and they quit the IM services in 3 days.
The problem is always the same: the one, who holds the startup password for
pidgin, trillian-astra, gaim and so on, has the power to change the specific
IM accounts, can rename, disable, steal or whatever he likes to do with
them. ...
Arne
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Von: Ethan Blanton [mailto:[email protected]]
Gesendet: Montag, 9. Juli 2012 15:07
An: Arne L.
Cc: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: admin and user passwords
Arne L. spake unto us the following wisdom:
> for that people, who run help deks or internet radio stations it can
> be needful to access every messenger net with an account, but on
> user-level the accounts are protected against unwanted changes or
> phishing. if a meber leaves the group in bad standing, there is only
> the need to create a new user-level password, the single messenger
> accounts are still protected. is that a feature, you woul dthink about
> in the future?
No. The correct solution to this is multiple OS-level accounts, with each
user having their own Pidgin configuration. Removing or locking out the
OS-level user when a user leaves solves this problem.
Ethan
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