[Grok-dev] New sample app: LoginDemo

[Luciano Ramalho]

On Dec 31, 2007 7:40 AM, Uli Fouquet <uli at gnufix.de> wrote:
> Hi Luciano,

Hey, Uli, very nice to hear from you!

> Some of us might remember, that there already was a version of the
> admin-UI with session-based authentication, a logout button etc. It even
> had a hidden usermanagement screen, what nobody noticed ;-) It suffered,
> however, from one heavy design-flaw, which I could fix with a
> fallback-authentication mechanism, that was inspired by Philipp. But
> some users had problems to update their old instances under certain
> circumstances. Therefore Martijn voted for removal of the session based
> authentication.

Thanks for the reminder, I had forgotten all about this... I still
think it would be a good idea to put session authentication back to
the admin ui. Any problems people may have updating will be much more
contained now than after we go to beta or do a 1.0 release.

Cheers,

Luciano