can't register with multiple school servers

[dsd]

We have a situation here in Paraguay: all teachers from 10+ schools are brought together for training. We give them XOs, they register with the single XS that we have for the training, etc.

After the training, the teachers split up and go to their schools. The XS here is different, but they are unable to register with it because they already registered with the first.

We do not want to reflash their laptops. We do not want to hand-edit the sugar config file on 150 machines. It would be nice if sugar supported registrations to multiple school servers. Or at least, a simple way to reset the registration info.

In Paraguay we are hooking up the "Discard network history" button with the following 2 modifications:

1. sed -i -e '/clear_networks/ a\ \ \ \ clear_registration()' \

${pristine}/usr/share/sugar/shell/controlpanel/model/network.py

2. the attached patch

[tomeu]

Moving this to the 0.86 milestone.

[erikos]

def clear_registration():
    """Clear the registration with the schoolserver                                                                                         
    """
    client = gconf.client_get_default()
    client.set_string('/desktop/sugar/backup_url', '')
    return 1

In current code, we do clear the backup_url. So the workaround does work. For the original request, to allow for the connection to multiple schoolservers I think it would be best to file a feature page. ​http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Policy

[dsd]

and clear_registration() is definitely called in some codepath?

[erikos]

Actually all is good. ​http://dev.laptop.org/attachment/ticket/7765/7765-reset.patch This patch landed already: 'sugar-control-panel -c registration' does the clearing of the registration.

Let's aim to make the whole schoolserver interaction with multiple servers and connecting and disconnecting more advanced in 0.88

[martin.langhoff]

Reviewed for 8.2.2 -- won't apply this, it (ab)uses a UI action meant for something else.

[dsd]

It's been months and there has been no sign of someone doing the (somewhat heavy amount of) work to make future versions of sugar work with multiple school servers.

Could this patch be reconsidered? Or perhaps we could consider it as a separate button? Speaking right here from a deployment preparation meeting of 60000 systems in Argentina, it *is* needed in the field and command line is not a viable option.

[tomeu]

The patch seems to be for 0.82, which AFAIK nobody is ever going to make a new release of, so removing from the queue and leaving the ticket open for later releases.

[dnarvaez]

Seems to be important for deployments, need to update status.