rodnaph/sockso — Issue #72: Authorize registrations with text messages?
Author: Madcamper
Created: 2011-10-13 18:05:37+00:00
State: open

I thought, instead of having to use email services to be notified when someone registers an account on your music server, we use text messaging to notify the admin. The question lies, how would the registee know they have been authorized? Maybe using a free temporary email service, or have some way the music server can connect to say, a gmail account using username and password, and then send out an automated registration accepted message. I found this free text messaging site on google. It does require that a carrier be entered, which I would think, since it is only being sent to one person, the admin, somewhere in the code you could have a adminpropset message.Carrier or something. Not sure how the captcha would be dealt with though. This is the website: http://www.text4free.net/ as far as admins being able to authorize users, there should be a admin CP that has buttons that would send commands to the console. Ex. You have an "Awaiting Authorization" button that when you clicked it, would pop up the usernames of people who have registered but cannot access the server. Under those accounts would be a "Accept" "Decline" button which would allow, or disallow that person from having access to the server.
I will try to find more free ones so there are more places to choose from.