Re: Network Manager Autologin

["Pablo Martí" <pmarti warp es>]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Pablo Martí <pmarti warp es> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Alexander Sack <asac ubuntu com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 01:29:22PM +0200, Tambet Ingo wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Alexander Sack <asac ubuntu com> wrote:
>>> > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 10:44:59AM +0200, Tambet Ingo wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Add a dispatcher script that runs "xdg-open $url" for a specific SSID
>>> >> you need it for and you're done.
>>> >
>>> > Do we have per-user dispatcher scripts or are you suggesting to open
>>> > the browser as root here :) ?
>>>
>>> Ok, you're right, but listening for a DBus signal from a user process
>>> isn't all that hard either. Or do you prefer NM executing firefox
>>> directly (as root) like the original mail suggested?
>>>
>>
>> Dbus would work. However, I dont really understand the use-case this
>> is supposed to cover. The browser usually redirects to the login site
>> anyway? What benefit would the user by such a firefox extension?
>
> The benefit is that the user is not redirected to the hotspot webpage,
> but is logged in automatically. It might seem a silly difference, but
> is a requested feature. Our customer requires WISPr/WSP capabilities
> and I'm very interested in the outcome of this thread.

s/WSP//g  mental corruption here :)

>
> Pablo
>
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>>
>>  - Alexander
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