Single Account for Everything
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6 years ago 1066 Under dev. review |
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It is a challenge as all the parts of the site are built from different "Prefab" parts and thus have different login and databases....
This must be a real challenge - oh my.... "Under dev. review" for 6 years meanwhile ....
So... if this means merging the accounts for community.linuxmint.com with forums.linuxmint.com and blog.linuxmint.com sounds like a great idea for me.
Terrible idea to mix comments with installable software.
Good idea. Buena idea.
I can understand that this my be hard to implement, as Linux Mint is not maintained by a single team in a single environment or location, however it would be useful and convenient for the end-user. I can image the only issue with this is the main servers from different services communicating with one another and the authentication servers via the internet in such way introduces more opportunity for security breaches.
Es buena, y también podría usarse para asignar algo de espacio en la nube a todos los usuarios de Linux MInt
This would mean using the *same password* for Mint Forums, Community and whatnot.
It would be more secure, and thus more Linux-like IMO, to use a different password for each site.
This is already achieved for quite some users by having a different account for every one of them, and I think it should stay that way.
no. Please remember your passwords, or write them down in an encrypted textfile. No more "one for all" stuff, generally. They can be cross-referenced, datamined or worse. Just. Remember. Or. Save. Your. Passwords
i like the idea. But rather not used in the way like "google(+)gmail,youtube,etc it use". Btw, i wish people use more duckduckgo ,
google own and steal your things.
As of today the 14th of April 2016 new legislation is in force in EU.
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/da/news-room/20160407IPR21776/Data-protection-reform-Parliament-approves-new-rules-fit-for-the-digital-era
@Hammer459 Hold my beer... By everything I am referencing to the title "Single Account for Everything". The implementation still has to protect the users privacy. See the following link to the European Parliament TV with a brief talk about the issue: http://www.europarltv.europa.eu/en/player.aspx?pid=9626f30f-c8a5-4104-b0f7-a4b900e5cc19
I still vote NO, because Linux Mint does NOT have any clear terms or eula on the website.
No thanks.
Privacy matters, BUT a single account for everything can be abused and may/will cause fines up to 2% of the global turnover to the team who is protecting this data for every single incident they fail to protect the users data in EU. So obviously this is a major legal issue that has to be covered before implementation.
It could possibly be handled with keyrings and automagicaly encrypted? That way the security could perhaps be handled by the OS and the access to the communities handled by eg an extension of firefox? It would of coarse have to be ported to the other major browsers as well, and it could never be a prerequisite for joining or logging in, since that would exclude those unwilling to use the solution. We don't want a box in such as WinDO$ or other more rigid software creators. And on the same note it would have to be a parallel system, so that one could use other computers than the ones with Mint on them to log in, albeit with more traditional methods. Just brainstorming here, unfortunately I don't know much about security.
Could be useful when uploading hw information, however I don't think I would want to encourage a single sign if you have admin privileges on your desktop using the same password for the forums. There would need to be some sort of safeguards I guess.
Could be useful when uploading hw information, however I don't think I would want to encourage a single sign if you have admin privileges on your desktop using the same password for the forums. There would need to be some sort of safeguards I guess.
>Sounds like a security issue waiting to happen.
Actually, I think multiple accounts do have potential security issues as well. People may be inclined to reuse passwords, for example. One account for all services doesn't necessarily mean you give up a significant amount of security, as long as that account is handled well.
and so, what we got now - 1 year after ?
Sounds like a security issue waiting to happen.