private forum - CGIAuth

prekill · Worker Joined: Oct 22, 2005 Posts: 186

Hey,

I want to lock a forum even from my God admins.

The only idea I thought of is CGIAuth just like nukeSentinel does.

How can I do that for ex. to lock the following url:

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thanks to the helpers Wink

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

Assuming you're using URL rewriting, you could protect that form. But it would be really difficult to protect each potential topic in that forum.

prekill · Worker Joined: Oct 22, 2005 Posts: 186

I dont need to protect every topic.

just the forum.

I am using URL rewriting.

How can I protect the forum URL?

thank you!

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

Look in your .htaccess file to see how admin auth is applied to admin.php. Do the same thing for the forumxx.html file. The problem will be defining passwords for people who have access.

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

Just curious - why isn't the private forum status enough?

prekill · Worker Joined: Oct 22, 2005 Posts: 186

kguske,

this is why:

Quote:

I want to lock a forum even from my God admins.

hmm one problem:

the file forumxx.html does not exists what should I do?

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

xx is the number of the forum, not the actual file name. Still don't see why you want to lock out God admins - just make them admins to other modules and not forums, and make forum private.

montego · Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:34 pm

I know one reason why and is why I've been thinking about coming up with a hack... the only way to allow an admin to post site Messages, for example, is to give them Super User access. Now, that is NOT the same as "God admin" and I suspect, though, that prekill is meaning super user rather than a true "God admin", which can really only be set up directly via a database update (except for the first admin).

I want to be able to control each of the system level admin functions, too, just like the module admins... someday...

southern · Client Joined: Jan 29, 2004 Posts: 579 Location: Texas

I think I saw a hack at

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that makes forums password protected. I went to the trouble of looking for you

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kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6044

Thanks, southern! Always nice to see you around.

southern · Client Joined: Jan 29, 2004 Posts: 579 Location: Texas

No prob but I agree the forum could just be made private, he must be up to naughty stuff lol