[Psi-devel] Are there any clients supporting SASL authorization identities?

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On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 09:32:39AM +0100, Kevin Smith wrote:
> On 26 Jul 2006, at 08:43, Remko Troncon wrote:
> >> I'm not sure of the best way to add the authzid field into Psi  
> >> though.
> >
> > Me neither, it's a pretty weird field, and many will ask what it does
> > i think. I don't know if we should put it in, although if we don't,
> > who does (except tkabber). If we put it in, we need a pretty good
> > name to cover it. 'Login as' came to mind, but that sounds like the
> > exact opposite.  'Authorize as' in the last tab of the account
> > settings ? Maybe guarded by a checbox 'Authorize using different  
> > user' ?
> 
> It should probably go in somewhere though, give them features and  
> people find a use for them :)
> 

I wonder what's the primary use case of this...
I guess it's something that will be used to debug/diagnose problems. If so,
it will typical be used will authorize as many different JIDs no single one
of them frequently? 
If that's the case puting it in the account settings would seem odd to me,
maybe it can somehow be made to work as an command in the admin menu of the
account in the roaster? (I don't see a reason why a server would allow
impersonating a other user to non admins). Coding wise this might be odd,
because psi might not be prepared to get a completely different roaster and
history might look odd too.

just some thoughs... 


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