[903] in IS Home Pages
Re: Fwd: Re: Suggestion for improving the IS web pages --
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Smyser)
Thu Dec 23 11:01:25 1999
Message-Id: <199912231601.LAA23828@melbourne-city-street.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 10:59:39 -0500
To: Kris Nyzio <knyzio@mit.edu>, olc@mit.edu, andym@mit.edu
From: Rob Smyser <smyser@MIT.EDU>
Cc: is-home@mit.edu
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Andy,
Netscape provides the User Profile feature to handle multiple
identities. Your copy of netscape is operating with a single default
profile. To get a list of alternative profiles when you start Netscape,
you can use Profile Manager to create new profiles; profiles are really a
named set of preferences files, including the certificates and password
files, stored in profile-specific folders on your machine. This is
netscape's way of being "multiuser" when the operating system isn't.
Another approach is to use the single default profile but to obtain
certificates under multiple userids. The Security button, Navigator link
in netscape allows you to set what Certificate to present to servers.
Normally people tell netscape to always pick their own. You could set it
to Ask Every Time, but you'll be deluged with dialog boxes. So you could
also just use this dialog box to change the "identity of the user" as far
as Netscape is concerned by choosing the certificates of the other person.
I hope that helps. User Profiles will require restarting Netscape each
time you change identities. Security-->Navigator doesn't, but is more
prone to confusing yourself as to what identity you are at the moment.
Rob
At 02:25 PM 12/22/1999 -0500, Kris Nyzio wrote:
>Hi,
>I got your email off the websis page. Could you possibly assist this person
>with some information regarding personal certificates on the websis page?
>Thanks,
>Kris
>
>
>>X-Sender: andym@po9.mit.edu (Unverified)
>>Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:05:54 -0500
>>To: Kris Nyzio <knyzio@mit.edu>
>>From: Andy Marsh <andym@MIT.EDU>
>>Subject: Re: Suggestion for improving the IS web pages
>>Mime-Version: 1.0
>>
>>the url is:
>>http://student.mit.edu/
>>What I'm refering to is personal certificates, not tickets (sorry). I'm
>>talking about Academic records, financial records, and pre-registration...
>>everything that requires personal certificates. Netscape 4.7 saves
>>certificate information such that if I close netscape and restart it, and
>>try to log back on to websis to check someone else's academic records (for
>>example), I can't because it remembers who I am. That way, if I want to
>>check the information at the same time as another user of my computer, then
>>we have to restart my computer or wait until netscapes's memory clears
>>(takes only about a couple hours usually).
>>
>>Andy
>>
>>At 10:57 AM 12/22/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>>Hi Andy,
>>>Please provide the URL of the page you are referring to.
>>>Thanks,
>>>Kris
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>At 4:14 PM -0500 12/6/1999, andym@MIT.EDU wrote:
>>> >Suggestions (provide URL):
>>> >There should be a way to refresh tickets on this site. I am not the only
>>> >user of my computer, and it's hard for both of us to check our
>>> >registration status/financial status/preregister/etc... at close times to
>>> >each other.
>>> >
>>> >Andy
>>>
>
>
>
>
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Kris Nyzio
>Web Production Assistant
>MIT Information Systems
>N42-290h
>(617) 253-2476
>(617) 258-6875 fax
>knyzio@mit.edu
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
Rob Smyser Business Liaison Team, MIT Information Systems, N42-040
smyser@mit.edu 617.253.1358 http://web.mit.edu/blt
