Unfortunately many people are turned off by the idea of having to register and everything
One of the worries I have with a registration system but a session is a session is a session. I was thinking of Public Key type authentication. Just use your name and key and it will authenticate you but I would need a copy of everyone's key and in order to get that you would have to register.
I then thought about a simple 2 user system. An admin and a general user account and control it that way. But there are obvious faults in that method.
Why not do what many of the other websites do and ask the user to type in a string that you render into a image?
Anyone know of any good sites on howto use this method just out of curiosity
Maybe I'll flash the bigger picture that was mention before everyone eyes. I believe it was talked about that down the road hardware information could be, if the user decides, sent after an install. No registration would be required. But that is down the road.