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Shared Login #9

Open abergs opened 9 years ago

abergs commented 9 years ago

A shared login is commonly used in the booking system. The service personnel shares a computer placed in the restaurant to place drop in bookings and look up bookings for arriving guests.

How Shared Logins are handled today

Every computer is preconfigured to have access to a system. If that system is configured to have a shared login, then anyone that has control over the computer can access the shared login (a shared login often does not require a password, but could do).

TL;DR:

A Shared login does not have to work on a phone device, but needs to work on desktop and tablets.

How to do it

This is described under System specific services

The steps currently described in above link might be too complex to be good in practice. This has to be evaluated.

Should Shared logins work within the portal? (To allow hired guards to view their schedule)

One idea is to build a specific link that contains an access token (containing permissions/id) and place that link as a shortcut on the desktop. This would work fine for a desktop, but would be troublesome on a tablet if we want that shortcut to actually open the Caspeco application, and not safari.