Re: [Server-devel] moodle and authentication

[Martin Langhoff]

You can do that with a Moodle auth plugin that

 - gets the mac address from an arp lookup
 - saves the mac address in the idnumber field, avoids adding a db field

it's a kludge but it'll get you going



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[Server-devel] moodle and authentication

[David Van Assche]

So... We've come to thinking about how to do the moodle authentication
from the xos in the easiest way, but also a way that involves the
teachers/administrators in some way. An idea we came up with is the
following:

-Modify the user database to include an extra field - lets call it mac
address, but could be any unique xo identifier.
- make a little script to check the xo mac address and pass it along
to moodle to check in its user database and log on...

The teacher would then check the mac address on the XO, while filling
in the rest of the data in moodle for the student and put in the mac
address

what do u think?

David Van Assche
OLE Nepal
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