[Wocky] access to see a new user's presence
Ken Raeburn
raeburn at MIT.EDU
Sun Mar 9 09:46:38 EDT 2008
> You may be correct that adding a contact before they first log into
> jabber.mit.edu results in the initial request being black-holed.
Seems like a bug. At least, depending on the model we want to
present. Some better options: Give an error on the request to add a
contact that doesn't exist (yet), if we're assuming that someone with
a Kerberos identity may never create their Jabber account. Or
consider the Jabber account "created" automatically once the user has
a Kerberos id (or allow any string named as a contact, or any string
that corresponds to a Kerberos id), and remember the authorization
request, even if the user has never signed on so far.
I checked on Friday with another contact whose presence I hadn't been
allowed to see, and that also turns out to be a case of adding a
contact before the first sign-on.
> Pidgin has a "re-request authorization" right-click menu option on
> contacts. I don't know if Adium has one as well.
I don't see it, but I can fire up pidgin and play with it. It also
seems to show whether authorization requests are pending, unlike
Adium; I assume rejections wouldn't show up as pending, so re-
requesting authorization only from those contacts where it's pending
looks like the right answer.
Ken
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