Ticket #31 (WontFix)Fri Jul 28 10:15:08 UTC 2006
Single sign-on mechanism to recognise administrators?
| Reported by: | Andrew | Severity: | Enhancement |
| Part: | Web site: Hub (single sign-on mechanism) | Release: | |
| Milestone: | Status | WontFix |
Details by Andrew:
It would be good if the SSO mechanism, whatever it might be, recognised administrative accounts and offered a different control panel page to regular users. In particular a set of links to the /admin interfaces on Radiant and Typo would be good, along with more explicit directions into RForum maintenance and user management.
Changelog:
Modified by Andrew Fri, July 28 2006 - 10:23:13 GMT
- Part changed from Many (affects multiple applications) to SSO (single sign-on mechanism)
Modified by Andrew Mon, August 07 2006 - 13:43:52 GMT
This means that SSO must have a bootstrap “admin” user who can do user management within the SSO itself. Only administrators would have the option of enabling or disabling the admin flag for other users.
Modified by Andrew Mon, August 07 2006 - 13:45:30 GMT
I’m inclined to leave the actual administrative interfaces of applications unchanged as far as possible. Certainly Radiant and Typo adminstration is a very different part of the system from the user-visible pages; Collaboa is fairly independent too. This means SSO for end users but MSO for admins, but I think we can handle that!
The fewer the modifications to core code the better for many reasons, not least of which upgrading to newer application versions in future.
Modified by Andrew Mon, August 07 2006 - 13:45:30 GMT
I’m inclined to leave the actual administrative interfaces of applications unchanged as far as possible. Certainly Radiant and Typo adminstration is a very different part of the system from the user-visible pages; Collaboa is fairly independent too. This means SSO for end users but MSO for admins, but I think we can handle that!
The fewer the modifications to core code the better for many reasons, not least of which upgrading to newer application versions in future.
Modified by Andrew Mon, August 07 2006 - 13:45:58 GMT
The moral of the above story: Don’t accidentally double-click on the “Submit changes” button…
Modified by Andrew Hodgkinson Mon, October 16 2006 - 16:50:47 GMT
- Status changed from Open to WontFix
The site is now being developed under a deadline, so this feature is being dropped for now. SSO will be limited to normal users, so they can prove they’re not spambots and avoid having to type their names into forum posts, Wiki articles, bug comments and so-on, over and over.
