Re: Network Manager Autologin

["Patryk Zawadzki" <patrys pld-linux org>]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Alexander Sack <asac jwsdot com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 02:13:37PM +0100, Pablo Martí wrote:
>> 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.
> I agree that it would be nice to be automatically logged in, but I
> don't clearly see how why we need firefox to do that authentication.
>
> Another idea would be to write a tray applet that recognizes when NM
> goes online and the probes whether it gets redirected to hotspot
> site. If thats the case the tray thing would authenticate and would
> allow users also to end that session later (from the tray). This could
> be done by nm applet itself, but as we dont really have a plugin
> infrastructure for that yet I would suggest to make that a standalone
> tray tool until we have more experience on what we really want
> here. Would that work?

I think the important question is: isn't this a direct violation of
the ToS? By automatically doing something that was created to enforce
user interaction you are creating a tool that silently accepts all
licenses, terms and conditions without notifying the user.

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Patryk Zawadzki