Re: [PHPiCalendar-DEV] Real admin page

[Nicolas C. <nic...@gm...>]

On 11/30/05, Wesley Miaw <we...@we...> wrote:
> The advantage of having the variables only defined in config.inc.php
> is security. I personally would not want to expose certain things on
> the admin page. And I don't think the current situation is too
> difficult for regular admins to grasp. Right now, config.inc.php can
> be read-only and it can hide things like the blacklisted calendars or
> user accounts. We're opening up a whole can of worms if we decide to
> make this something that can be modified from a web page.
>
> Certainly, the idea is nice. But I think things are less complicated
> and more secure the current way, and there is very little advantage
> to putting together a web-based admin page. config.inc.php is too
> straight-forward and simple as it stands for me to believe it can
> really benefit from a better UI.
>
> Anyway, that's my 2 cents.

You're right.
The login/pass are the only secret information contained in this file,
aren't they ?

What are their practical uses ?
Entering the 'admin' page and publishing (I'm not sure, they're really
useful in it), what else ?

By the way, thanks all for your cents, thats the major point of a discussio=
n. ;)


Nicolas.
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