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This is an old revision of UserAdministration made by DarTar on 2008-11-01 23:23:06.
User Administration
NOTE
This feature is available since:
WikkaWiki 1.1.6.4
WikkaWiki 1.1.6.4
WikkaWiki 1.1.6.4 introduces a new system page, AdminUsers, accessible by system administrators to facilitate various user management tasks. This code has been extensively beta-tested in previous versions, and has been enhanced for 1.1.6.4 to include user deletions and session management.
Features
- Display a pageable, sortable and searchable list of registered users, including:
- Username and userpage (if any)
- Registered email address
- Sign-up time
- Registration IP address (forthcoming)
- Display user statistics:
- Display user's owned pages
- Display user's comments
- Display user's changes
- Allow wiki admins to perform specific actions on single or multiple users:
- Remove/ban users
- Send users feedback (forthcoming)
- Create new users (forthcoming)
User Account Deletion and Session Management
Users may be inactivated either individually or in bulk (such as might occur with a scripted registration attack) by using the Delete functionality. User accounts are not actually deleted (useful for later reactivation or for post-forensic analysis), but are rather marked in the database as deleted. As such, these users will not be recognized by the system, and additional attempts to re-register the same user will fail.
These are the steps that are taken by the system when a user is inactivated/deleted:
- The user's password is changed to a value that can never be matched by any password.
- The user's account is flagged as "deleted".
- The user's most recent session is immediately closed. This ensures that a user cannot continue to access the system via an existing session cookie.
Future Enhancements
- Deleted user accounts can only be restored by direct access to the wiki database. A future version of this module will permit the restoration of user access via the user administration panel.
The current User Administration module is a work in progress. While operational, several features remain to be implemented. Suggestions for improvement are always welcome.
Sample output
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