Update Needed: When will members authenticate with LDS Accounts?

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russellhltn
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printbr wrote:who is going to determine who gets what access,
Stake President

printbr wrote:and then who will actually administer that.
The STS.

I'm not entirely sure that the decisions can be made at the individual level. What I saw was groups such as Leaders, adults, youth, etc. Maybe about half a dozen settings in all.

I can't remember where I saw the UI, so I don't know the details. And I wouldn't count on them staying the same anyway. We'll just have to deal with this like everything else - one day it will magically appear.
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printbr, you bring up and excellent point. The tech broadcast mock-up that we saw indicated that by Role you could choose to grant/deny access. There are other complications like what if I don't have a calling right now, what age is appropriate to grant the access, etc... all just mysteries at this point.
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printbr wrote:I am not sure why everyone is so excited about LDS account login for WiFi in the buildings. everyone will know their login id and password. How is that any different than knowing the current password?
Right now anyone with reasonable web search skills can connect to the wireless network in most buildings. But with LDS Account authentication, you can control who signs in. That's a big difference.
printbr wrote:And if we somehow have the ability to limit access to certain people, who is going to determine who gets what access, and then who will actually administer that. We have 5,400 people in our stake. I know I don't want to administer that.
The stake president will make the decisions, and the stake technology specialist will administer it. But don't worry -- it's mostly administering very large groups (initial indications are that it will be youth, adults, and leaders) with the ability to make specific individual exceptions (but those should be rare). This also makes it possible to block access to the bulk of the people in situations as a webcast where you want to preserve the bandwidth for a particular event.
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