openSUSE admin

Please note that anyone that knows the URL to the room is able to join, unless the lobby mode is activated. I'd recommend to use a longer, string than "bar" that additionally isn't easy to guess. Alternatively, you could enable the lobby mode and manually let people in.

Op dinsdag 9 maart 2021 19:01:37 CET schreef redmine@opensuse.org:

[openSUSE Tracker]
Issue #89575 has been updated by mrey.

Please note that anyone that knows the URL to the room is able to join,
unless the lobby mode is activated. I'd recommend to use a longer, string
than "bar" that additionally isn't easy to guess. Alternatively, you could
enable the lobby mode and manually let people in.

I too would prefer this to be behind the login system.

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Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht
openSUSE Board
openSUSE Forums Team

knurpht@opensuse.org wrote:

I too would prefer this to be behind the login system.

I disagree.

For example, I've recommended meet.o.o for users who don't have an openSUSE account. One example was on the german ML - someone asked for a video conference platform that can handle ~20 poeple, and it later turned out that the person who asked is a teacher who needs something[tm] working for teaching. I'm quite sure not all pupils have an openSUSE account, therefore we'd break that usecase, and give a bad impression to those pupils if they suddenly need an account.

Besides that - I checked meet.o.o/bar several times in the last days, and always was the only person there. No other humans, and also no spammer.

Anyway - maybe we could have something like "login with your openSUSE account to get admin permissions in a room"? For privacy reasons, this should only work for rooms you can join. It should not allow to join password-proteced rooms if you don't have the password.
(Disclaimer: I have no idea if this is possible and/or how much work it would be ;-)

1. The server is not currently "overrun"
2. I think we agreed on not wanting to lock down the instance

--> can this ticket be closed?