[support] Understanding the 'user' node

[Earnie Boyd]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Steve Wickham
<steve at wickwoodonline.com> wrote:
> >From what I understand, in the WordPress world it is a fairly common thing
> to change the path of the user login page in order to harden the site
> because this helps prevent bots from finding the login page in the first
> place.  The other thing that is commonly done is to change the preassigned
> admin username to something else.
>
> I myself have wondered about how this might be done with Drupal, and have
> never found an answer.  Although to be honest, i never looked that hard.  So
> if you do find the answer, or if someone knows the answer to this, please
> post it back here.

It can be done but you have to study the hooks system of the API.  But
setting user registration to admin only and removing the login block
should be sufficient.  Changing /user is a bit on the paranoid side.

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