[katello-devel] Design of SSO

Scott Seago sseago at redhat.com
Mon Mar 4 16:57:16 UTC 2013


On 03/04/2013 11:48 AM, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> On 03/04/2013 11:46 AM, Scott Seago wrote:
>> On 03/04/2013 11:22 AM, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 02:19:42PM +0000, Dmitri Dolguikh wrote:
>>>> provider. The somewhat inconvenient bit is in userid and password
>>>> being entered on separate screens.
>>> I am fine with that, but I can imagine many confused users :-)
>>>
>> Unrelated to the overall SSO question, but I've seen username and
>> password on different screens on various sites in the past. When it's
>> done, it's often deliberate (with doc links explaining why they
>> separated them). I have no idea what the merits of that decision were --
>> I'm just pointing out that users are likely to have seen this scenario
>> in the past, even if it's not the most common arrangement.
>>
>> Scott
>>
> It does seem a bit on the nasty side.
> -- bk
>
That could be -- I wasn't recommending it so much as suggesting that it 
probably wouldn't confuse users too badly -- whether it's the 
best/correct approach is a separate question.

Scott




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