Re: Network Manager Autologin

[Alexander Sack <asac ubuntu com>]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 03:02:04PM +0100, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> 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.
>