Re: Connect to Server dialog

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 21:08, Seth Nickell wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 16:07 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 20:13, Seth Nickell wrote: 
>
> 2) The dialog isn't really intended to be static based on the server
> type. So if you select FTP, it should have a checkbox for "Anonymous".
> Or if you select, say, AFS, it should have a "Use current Kerberos
> credentials" checkbox (or something, terribly phrased I know). The
> username is one of the things impacted by this. Ideally, we'd like to
> have password here too, since username & password are almost always a
> pair...but that could also be protocol specific (e.g. with sftp if you
> have S/KEY installed you don't need a password).

Uhm. Why cram all this into this dialog? We already have a dialog that
asks you for password (and lets you store it in keyring for later
automation) and lets you select anonymous login. Gnome-vfs also
automatically uses kerberos credentials if you have any, without asking
about it. 

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