What I'd love to be able to do is to have the ability to use Google's Open ID system to have users automatically authenticate with Ubuntu.
Yes, it would be Chromium OS-like in its login but there are three problems:
- Chromium OS doesn't work (yet) on the laptops I'm setting up with Ubuntu so it's not even an option;
- Chromium OS is quite unstable; and,
- Chromium OS doesn't run proprietary Windows plug-ins through Wine (we need Macromedia and Silverlight in a big way for many of the sites we access).
A similar question (Auto creating accounts) popped up about auto-creating login accounts with a categorical "no" but I find that hard to believe that it's impossible to automate account creation... how are the various system accounts created at install? :)
PS I'm specifically asking about Google's implementation of Open ID because that's what our group's accounts are.