[support] Understanding the 'user' node

[Steve Wickham]

I think if you are working in the WordPress world it helps to be paranoid.
;-) That's why I'm working with Drupal and gave up searching for answer to
this question myself.

Steve

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Earnie Boyd
<earnie at users.sourceforge.net>wrote:

> 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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