Re: [Plog-general] wizard.php - big issue here I think

[Oscar R. <os...@re...>]

Maybe you went a little bit too fast but it's also good that somebody has a 
more critical view than the developers' :) 

And you shouldn't work too much!!!! It's not good, haven't you noticed? O:)

Oscar.

On Monday 11 August 2003 16:18, Warren Liu wrote:
> Doh.. Guess I needed to RTFM before jumping the gun here... Long day
> today... 14 hours and counting at the office.. Still waiting for a fax
> to arrive before I can take off, so here I am chugging away at creating
> the user document and creating all sorts of panic.
>
> Will check out register.php.. Didn't notice it until you pointed it out.
>
> User id 1 or 0... Anyways, the premise behind what I suggested lies in
> the fact that the first user account on any pLog system would be the guy
> who installed it or runs the site, so it would make sense that the very
> first user account be the superuser right? I haven't seen any install of
> any multi-user system where the very first account didn't default to
> superuser.
>
> Given this assumption, the only instance I can think of where we will
> run into trouble is when this original superuser decides to quit or stop
> doing what's he's doing and wants to give it to someone else to run the
> show. Given the current setup, we can't YET transfer superuser rights to
> another id (I suppose that's where user-levels come in) and we can't
> change the name on the account........
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plo...@li...
> > [mailto:plo...@li...] On Behalf
> > Of Oscar Renalias
> > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 8:00 PM
> > To: plo...@li...
> > Subject: Re: [Plog-general] wizard.php - big issue here I think
> >
> >
> > There is a register.php script that allows to add new
> > users... Have you seen
> > it?
> >
> > The thing is that such script would also have to be uploaded
> > every time we
> > want to add a new blog. It's just that user level permissions
> > have not been
> > implemented yet and such issue is a bit touchy at the moment.
> > How to proceed?
> > Don't quite know yet... The idea about the user with
> > identifier number '1'
> > would be good for the time being, but we would have to get
> > rid of it as soon
> > as we get user permissions in place (which won't be that soon, btw)
> >
> > I'll try to think about it and see if I can come up with some
> > smart solution.
> > I'll consider yours too, and any others will be welcome :)
> >
> > Oscar.
> >
> > On Monday 11 August 2003 15:58, Warren Liu wrote:
> > > ok was just going through the setup process to make sure that I was
> > > getting the document steps correctly when I noticed something that
> > > just threw red lights all over.
> > >
> > > I looked into the admin interface and realized that there wasn't
> > > anyway to create a new user. The only way to create a new
> >
> > user was to
> >
> > > either manually edit mysql or run wizard.php
> > >
> > > but we asked the user to delete wizard.php after setup,
> >
> > which is the
> >
> > > right thing to do, but how would the user add new users and
> >
> > new blogs
> >
> > > later on? Would require them to reload wizard.php back onto
> >
> > their site
> >
> > > again.
> > >
> > > my suggestion..
> > >
> > > create a global admin user which will be the only user or the first
> > > user who can add new users and add that function into the admin
> > > interface. then we will only need wizard.php just once as we have
> > > stated.
> > >
> > > shouldn't be too hard to set this superuser as user id 01.
> > >
> > > Warren
> >
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