Enter password again when continuing a test on different computer

1 Description

Test participants can continue a password-protected test on a different computer, without entering the password again.
 
This feature could be abused for an attempt to deceive. A participant could give his login credentials to a second person prior to the test. When he has started the test, the second person may continue the test on an arbitrary computer outside the classroom and use forbidden auxiliary resources.
 
We suggest that the test password should be prompted every time when the participant continues the test.
 
Note: we are not sure if it is a bug or feature, and also put it in Mantis:
http://www.ilias.de/mantis/view.php?id=12649

2 Status

• Scheduled for: Release 5.0
• Funding: Funded by FH Münster
• Maintainer: Björn Heyser, Databay AG
• Development: Feature is to be developed by
• Tester:

3 Additional Information

If you want to know more about this feature, its implementation or funding, please contact: Klaus Zimmermann / k.zimmermann@fh-muenster.de

4 Discussion

BH 12 May 2014: The maintainers highly appriciate this improvement. Currently the entered password is stored in the user preferences. We could imagine to store it in the php session instead, so a re-enter would be also required after a new login to ilias on the same machine.

JF 12 May 2014: We appreciate this feature and schedule it for 4.5. Please use a session based storage for the information.

5 Follow-Up

BH 18 September 2014: Feature is implemented and ready for acceptance.

Klaus Zimmermann 08 October 2014: We tested and accepted the feature.

BH 19 Jan 2015: Implementation Description
 
The entered password is now stored in the php user session. This information gets lost when the php session gets lost. In consequence a login to another or the same machine will require a password entering again.