Re: Web login

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 09:42 -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 14:57 +0300, Peteris Krisjanis wrote:
> > Just got it - it is simple as that. Try to open any page you're sure
> > isn't accessible without authentication. It will redirect to login
> > page. If there is clear shot that is indeed login page, go ahead. If
> > not, fall back to current default - do nothing :) 
> 
> Logging in is really a second step to providing a simple boolean about
> whether the network is in such a state to begin with. Right now a
> fundamental frustration is the lack of notification and api to make
> work-flow more intelligent.
> 
> Get that in there and then we can do the more interesting auto-logging
> on functionality. We have some designs cached for how notifiers would
> work in such a situation, but NM api is holding them back.

I assume you mean something like pre-up scripts?  That's where I'd put
this sort of functionality.

Dan