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List:       lon-capa-users
Subject:    Re: [LON-CAPA-users] guest accounts advice
From:       Ray Batchelor <batchelo () sfu ! ca>
Date:       2004-02-18 0:37:36
Message-ID: 200402171637.36367.batchelo () sfu ! ca
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Hi Felicia,
> 
> Sounds fine if it is just one user at a time.  A few people sharing the 
> guest account might not be a good selling point if they both log each 
> other out :)
> 

But they won't log each other out, because they will be different users each 
having a co-author role on the "Guest" account.  No-body will actually log-in 
as "Guest".  The danger arises if more than one person tries to edit or 
publish the same resource.  Just how dangerous that is, I'm not certain.

> By the way, authors can be internally authenticated or kerberos 
> authenticated.  Most MSU authors are actually kerberos authenticated now.
> 

We use local authentication here.  Thus it is vital that I prevent any course 
coordinator from enrolling users that are not actually students in the SFU  
course they are teaching.

Cheers,
Ray

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