[Koha-devel] Clarify timeout syspref?

[Michael Hafen]

Personally, I am not going to trust a user's home computer to be any
more secure than one of my OPAC workstations.  I actually expect a home
computer to be less secure, because I might have internet filtering in
place to protect my OPAC workstations from the more malicious sites.  Or
I may have a dedicated IT staff to keep the workstations clean of such
problems.  A home computer isn't likely to have either.

On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 09:35 -0500, Eric Bégin wrote:
> >
> > One problem is : as far as I can see, there's only one timeout, while
> > there probably should be 2 : one for opac, one for intranet. Short for
> > opac, long for intranet, where you want to : start cataloging a book,
> > go have a coffee, continue cataloging that darn book.
> What about letting the user decide?  This could be a per user setting.  
> The default may be short, but the user can set this value to a larger 
> one if he wanted.
> 
> I can understand that having a short timeout for a public workstation is 
> probably the best, but this is not very useful for the user accessing 
> the OPAC from home.
> 
> Eric
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