[645] in athena10
Re: "Other Options" xlogin button
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Tue Dec 2 15:47:01 2008
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
Cc: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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I'd like this too. But how hard is it to implement?
I presume that, since we're using the chroot'ed environment, I presume
security is less of a concern than offering this feature on the Athena 9
platform would be.
-Bill
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 14:32 -0500, Evan Broder wrote:
> Jonathan Reed wrote:
> > c) Create a single button that runs a browser in "kiosk mode" (defined
> > however we want), and thus allows people to run the reg applet, access
> > the cluster map, access barton, and do all sorts of neat stuff.
>
> I'd personally vote in favor of this - it seems like it gives us the
> most flexibility and involves the least amount of banging square
> software into round holes.
>
> - Evan
