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. ...
While this is true, what can be done about it? It's not a client
problem, and therefore not something a client can solve directly.
pidgin needs the same authentication information that the user could use
to act maliciously, so this isn't something you can solve at the client
level.
I suspect you'd be better off running your own XMPP server or other
intermediary and having end users connect to it (knowingly or not --
They might use a web interface) or by connecting it to the other
messenger accounts in some fashion.
--
Dave Warren
http://www.hireahit.com/
http://ca.linkedin.com/in/davejwarren
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