On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > On 2/7/12 10:53 AM, William Stein wrote: >> >> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:26 PM, dimpase<dimp...@gmail.com> 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. > > > > +1. > > Right now, we don't have a switch to require only OpenID logins, so we'd > have to do that somehow. > > A huge plus of this is that passwords would no longer be transmitted > insecurely, if I understand things correctly.
That's my understanding as well. It's really awesome. Are there any other major websites that *require* openid? I wonder what the drawbacks are? -- William > > Jason > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-edu" group. > To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en. > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en.
