GUEST PASSWORD

[skaneverdies]

Title
GUEST PASSWORD

Short, concise description of the idea
To make a way for a person (i.e. therapist) that does not have an LJ be able to view your private/friends only entries.

Full description of the ideaI have had my journal for going on seven years now. There is a lot of content here that says a lot about my history and who I am, and why I do

Comments

[likelydisaster]

No. Have your therapist create an LJ account. Then create a custom group that just includes your therapist. Change the the security levels for the entries you want your therapist to see. This is much safer and easier.

[rebelsheart]

+1

[intrepia]

You could even save your therapist a step here by creating a second account yourself, adding that account to your friends list and to the appropriate custom groups, and giving your therapist the username and password of that secondary account. You could then remove that account from your friends list at any time.

[imc]

I was just about to say that. :-)

By logging in to that account you can also log them out at any time of your choosing, and change the password so they can't get back in. (Even if they are sneaky and have changed the account's email address and/or password themselves you can still request a password reset to the original email address you set it up with.)

[elfy]

As I don't see this really happen (at least not soon), I wanted to tell you about another feature which could be useful for you! There is a program to make a pdf out of your lj. As far as I know you can decide if it includes comments or not and even if it only includes visible posts or also fo or private. It's a way to store your journal, but in this case would also be a possibility to give it to someone. You can make a pdf by year, if you wish, so not everything is in one document.

http://www.ljbook.com/
(I guess there are other versions, but this is the one I just found ^^)

[ursamajor]

Exactly. Or just print out or email specific entries you want X given person to see, if it is not practical for them to get an LJ.

Plus, given that dynamic IPs are still prevalent in most home browsing situations, that would be a problem in case the reader got cut off early, and they would have to request that the poster create another "guest pass" for them. I mean, I understand Flickr has such a guest pass system, sans IP requirements, but I don't know that I would use such a system were LJ to implement it. I might? But it just seems like it's poking one more hole in the dike.

[mooism]

Although you have to give LJBook your password.

The whole point is that the poster wants to give read-only access to their lj to someone else, without that someone else being able to login to their lj and change it, or read their friends’ friends-only entries.

Giving your password to a random website instead doesn’t solve the problem.

[elfy]

I know what the person is talking about.

But even if this would be considered, knowing lj it would probably take ages to be implemented.
So I was suggesting a way for the poster to give his/her therapist a possibility to read the entries.

Afaik there are also versions of lj book where you can download a program and run it on your own computer to collect the data. Yes, I know, that is ALSO not the safest way, but well, it would be a quick way to let someone read the stuff.

[mooism]

Being able to give others read-only access to my lj could be useful in other situations, e.g. if I want a 3rd party website to make a backup of my entire lj without the possibility that they might change something in my lj.

[cos]

You can always do it by creating another (free) LJ account, and friending that account. Then tell them the password to that other account. If you ever wish to remove their privileges, just unfriend it.

[mooism]

Although there is some information you can’t expose to other accounts - off the top of my head I can think of membership of my friends filters.

[azurelunatic]

And screened comments, and you'd have to edit any/all private entries.

[lied_ohne_worte]

I have to agree that I think the above suggestions might work better. Also, limiting access to one IP address won't work, as many people have changing IPs.

[scien]

I don't see why there should be a special password system for therapists in particular. Why can't they go through the normal system like everyone else? It doesn't seem like you want to do anything the current system can't, and there are no technological barriers. The time taken for you to create an LJ account for them with the right permissions in your journal is far, far less than the time it would take to develop and implement something like this, with little gain.