ensuring singularity of users

2003-09-16 Thread Zack Brown
Hi, I'd like to implement something that tries to ensure that one user can't masquerade as multiple users. I'm looking into Captchas, but I'm wondering what other options there are, and what folks think about that here. My impression so far is that there's no 100% effective way to do it. If

Re: ensuring singularity of users

2003-09-16 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 12:46, Zack Brown wrote: I'd like to implement something that tries to ensure that one user can't masquerade as multiple users. We talked quite a bit about preventing multiple logins recently. I think it was last week. Check the archives. I'm looking into Captchas Are

Re: ensuring singularity of users

2003-09-16 Thread Stas Bekman
Perrin Harkins wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 12:46, Zack Brown wrote: I'd like to implement something that tries to ensure that one user can't masquerade as multiple users. We talked quite a bit about preventing multiple logins recently. I think it was last week. Check the archives. Perhaps

Re: ensuring singularity of users

2003-09-16 Thread Zack Brown
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 01:55:46PM -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 12:46, Zack Brown wrote: I'd like to implement something that tries to ensure that one user can't masquerade as multiple users. We talked quite a bit about preventing multiple logins recently. I think

Re: ensuring singularity of users

2003-09-16 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 14:42, Zack Brown wrote: I want to prevent one person from having multiple accounts. Okay. That's correct, unless you have control over the client machines. You can require cookies, which will tell you if multiple users on separate browsers are sharing a login, but

Re: ensuring singularity of users

2003-09-16 Thread Zack Brown
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 03:11:04PM -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 14:42, Zack Brown wrote: I want to prevent one person from having multiple accounts. Okay. That's correct, unless you have control over the client machines. You can require cookies, which will tell