The very first NIM password prompt -- customer feedback needed.

[Paul B. Hill]

Hi,

I don't know what the current practice is, but for a number of years 
IS&T (or the former IS) had been recommending to departments that when 
they created local solutions they use the same namespace with respect to 
the usernames. The reason for making that recommendation was that when 
departments later started to integrate their local solutions with the 
larger infrastructure they would not have name conflicts and users would 
not have to think about what username to enter in different contexts.

All of that is a long way of saying, in many cases the local username is 
likely to be correct when mapped to the Athena realm.

Of course there will be cases where this is not true. But I question 
assumptions that this will be the majority of the time.

Paul

Kevin Koch wrote:
> Before NIM has a default identity, it prompts for a password for <WINDOWS
> USERNAME>@ATHENA.MIT.EDU.  Leash leaves the Name field blank.  Leash
> suggests what kind of name to enter in the line 'You are required to enter
> your Kerberos Password.'
> 
> MIT support staff believe that users will try to obtain credentials and
> fail, whenever the Windows username isn't the same as the Kerberos username.
> 
> 
> Has there been any other user feedback about the password prompt dialog?
> 
> I propose improving the user understanding of the password prompt dialog by:
> 
> . Adding a line of explanation, as in Leash, above the Username line:
> "Enter your Kerberos password."
> . Restoring this Leash behavior: initialize the Username text entry field to
> blank.
> . Changing the text "Username" to the left of the text entry field to
> "Kerberos\r\nUsername."
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Kevin Koch
> Kerberos for Windows Lead Software Engineer
> Information Services & Technology
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> 304 Vassar St. W92-143
> Cambridge, MA 02139
> 617-324-8949
> kpkoch at mit.edu
> 
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