From e78883e07fc518cea2315b3765631d747550905a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lunar Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 13:22:03 +0200 Subject: Some thoughts on how to disable 'Preferences' link when irrelevant --- doc/todo/Allow_disabling_edit_and_preferences_links.mdwn | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/todo') diff --git a/doc/todo/Allow_disabling_edit_and_preferences_links.mdwn b/doc/todo/Allow_disabling_edit_and_preferences_links.mdwn index a356c69df..5b9cc8742 100644 --- a/doc/todo/Allow_disabling_edit_and_preferences_links.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/Allow_disabling_edit_and_preferences_links.mdwn @@ -52,3 +52,18 @@ Patch: >>> is not controlled by any plugin. It would be nice if it were; I am >>> trying to achieve a configuration where the only action supported >>> via CGI is blog-style comments. --[Zack](http://zwol.livejournal.com/) + +>>> Like [[puck]], I'd like to keep search available but I want to disable all +>>> login facitilities and thus disable the "Preferences" link. +>>> +>>> After digging a little bit in the source code, my first attempt was to make +>>> the "Preferences" link appear only if there is `sessioncgi` hooks +>>> registered. But this will not work as the [[plugins/inline]] plugin also +>>> defines it. +>>> +>>> Looking for `auth` hooks currently would not work as at least +>>> [[plugins/passwordauth]] does not register one. +>>> +>>> Adding a new `canlogin` hook looks like overkill to me. [[Joey]], how +>>> about making registration of the `auth` hook mandatory for all plugins +>>> making sense of the "Preferences" link? --[[Lunar]] -- cgit v1.2.3