IcculusNews updates.

Ryan C. Gordon icculus at clutteredmind.org
Tue Jun 11 01:21:14 EDT 2002


Daemon:
- The anonymous account can now have global rights assigned to it, like
  any other user. Used to be zero all the time.
- There's now a global rights flag "canCreateUsers", which can prevent
  someone from creating a new account. If you don't assign this to the
  anonymous account's rights, you effectively disable new accounts, but
  you can assign it to a few trusted users that you want to grant accounts
  to people. It's a militant response to trolls, but some sites might want
  that. The daemon that i.o and td.o use allow Anonymous Hoser to
  create new users.
- A user can now have a default queue of zero (no queue). They will need
  to select one with the QUEUE command before they can do much useful
  stuff. SETDEFAULTQUEUE can be used to change their default.
- Currently, newly created user accounts default to queue 0 (no queue).
  This is for the web interface's benefit (read below).
- There's a syslogAll constant, in case you want a serious goddamn lot of
  syslog spam from the news daemon.

Web interface:
- IcculusNews.php has a news_createuser() function now.
- queue.php has an interface to news_createuser():
    https://www.icculus.org/news/queue.php?action=newuser
- Interface now handles a default queue of zero by tossing the user from
  the login screen to the posting screen. Users with an actual default
  queue land in the queue view screen.


(Other bugfixes and tweaks, too.)

--ryan.





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