RE: "icon on the desktop" access to VCL

2012-02-08 Thread Sanders, Arbin D
: vcl-...@incubator.apache.org Cc: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: "icon on the desktop" access to VCL For use in our production environment some authentication would be needed: - for any environment with licensed software we would need to be able to ensure that the terms of t

Re: "icon on the desktop" access to VCL

2012-02-08 Thread Aaron Coburn
Josh, One thing you may also want to consider is how you would handle api authentication for institutions that use Shibboleth. There are secure ways to do this, à-la the google 2-step verification or via an embedded browser, but that would involve some additional fields in the database and modif

Re: "icon on the desktop" access to VCL

2012-02-08 Thread Art Vandenberg
Georgia State is likely interested in this IF it doesn't reduce security. I presume icon would be clickable and then one VIOLA, logged in? If so, there is presumably no login per se. Perhaps some time-out on the ICON would be valuable then - e.g. you have "x minutes" to click or else (so

"icon on the desktop" access to VCL

2012-02-08 Thread Josh Thompson
I've been hearing interest in an "icon on the desktop" type of access to VCL. The idea being that you could have some kind of broker script/app that can be run which will interact with the VCL API to create a VCL reservation, wait on it to be deployed, and then connect to the reserved system (idea