Re: [Tiki-devel] Disable login for non admin users

[Torsten F. <to...@ti...>]

Hi Phil,

I answer in-text.


On 05/24/2018 09:30 PM, Phil Jollans wrote:
>
> Thanks Torsten,
>
> the only user content on my site is a forum, and I have pretty much 
> decided to close it down. However, I would like to keep the existing 
> content of the forum.
>
> If I were to delete all users (except myself), what would happen to 
> the forum postings?
>
Nothing. Not affected.
>
> Would they be deleted?
>
No.
>
> If not, would the database records they be orphaned?
>
No.
>
> Would the postings still display the name of the user who created them?
>
Likely, but not 100% sure. I'd say yes.
Make a backup of the database and try.

I have accidently deleted the users of a Tiki website - not a major 
issue, as only internal users and I had a backup.
I recreated a user with the same user name and the allocation of groups 
came back automatically -> so the reference to the user in the groups 
table stayed.

The same should be within the forums table.

=> I say 99% sure that the users stay.

Other option for your use case:
Just seize all extra permissions from Registered and do not mind if they 
login or not.
Maybe a Group-HomePage for Registered to be accessed after login, which 
mentioned that the community is closed down and no additional contents 
for Registered are available anymore.

After the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) you have to provide 
an opportunity for the users to delete their data and accounts. So maybe 
better delete them.

If there is it possible that they have data saved on your website you 
should inform them with a reasonable time frame to get and take the data 
first.

Regards,
Torsten


> Phil
>
>
> On 24.05.2018 21:04, Torsten Fabricius wrote:
>>
>> Yes, you can "close the site for maintenance", which allows Admins 
>> and those with this priviledge to login and other users not.
>>
>> Otherwise - nonclosing the site and keeping publicly available, I am 
>> very unsure that this would be possible.
>>
>> You could maybe temporarily redirect the tiki-login.php and hide the 
>> login modules, whilst you offer a login module on a page only 
>> available for Admins.
>>
>> Otherwise I do not know about an option "keep site publicly 
>> available, but disallow non-admin-users to login.
>>
>> The whole concept to have registered users on a public website seems 
>> to let them login.
>>
>> Maybe my above workaround would do it for a temporary very specific 
>> use case?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Torsten
>>
>>
>> On 05/24/2018 08:13 PM, Phil Jollans wrote:
>>>
>>> Two simple questions:
>>>
>>> Can I disable logins for all users except those in the admin group?
>>>
>>> If I delete users, will posts that they have made in the forum also 
>>> be deleted?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>> Phil
>>>
>>>
>>
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