[Sugar-devel] [sugar] XO identity shared via Browse

[Tony Anderson]

Hi,

We are looking at the same problem. We would like the students to be 
automatically logged in to their Moodle courses.

The approach I am looking at now is to have a Python script run at boot 
which creates a cookie with the nickname, serial number , and colors (in 
case there is more than one XO with the same nickname). Greasemonkey 
would then read the cookie and submit the username and password on the 
login page (which would be configured as the first page seen).

I hope to have time to test it in the next few days.

Tony


>> Talking with Martin L recently he mentioned that you have some ideas on
>> how the XO can communicate its identity (e.g. serial # and maybe user
>> name) with a web server. We're mostly thinking of the school server as
>> the server side but a more generic solution may be acceptable.
>>
>> The main idea is to eliminate the need for students to ever type in a
>> user name and password. e.g. they should be able to just hit the Backup
>> and Restore URL and see their files without having to login or find
>> their serial number in a list.
>>
>> That's one example. I would also like any Web server to be able to
>> extract the XO identity and use it in CGI (e.g. PHP) for processing.
>>
>> It should also be encrypted so that the XO cannot be spoofed. e.g. only
>> the XO which backed up and can see or restore its own files (possibly
>> with an admin override).
>>
>> I put a stub of a requirement for it on our roadmap here:
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap#Single_Sign_on_from_Browse
>>
>> Do you have any ideas or designs for how we can achieve that?
>>
>> Comments and questions welcome.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Greg S
>>
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