Yeah, that's what I was thinking - generate an encrypted login/password that becomes part of the URL sent to the user. Set that particular login to expire in a week (so as not to have forwardable logins being passed around each user's friends and remote acquaintances and their friends...).
<br><br>Has anyone done such a thing?<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Zohar Stolar</b> <<a href="mailto:z.stolar@gmail.com">z.stolar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If you can change the url sent to the users, to contain the encrypted<br>login information, then you could send them not directly to the content,<br>but to another page, which will process the request.<br>Say, for example, the content is at node/67, you could send them first
<br>to /autologin/node/67, where you'll check the credentials, and pass the<br>user on to node/67, without him/her having to do anything.<br><br><br>Ari Davidow wrote:<br><br>> We have several password-protected Drupal installations for use by
<br>> various groups connected to our organization. We have been using the<br>> Notification module to let folks know when something new has been<br>> posted. In actual practice, these sites are used so seldom that what
<br>> happens is that people receive the notification, can't remember how to<br>> log in, and end up ignoring the notice (and the content) rather than<br>> ask for help logging in (again).<br>><br>> We think that one solution might be to send out the notifications such
<br>> that they include the login/password info encrypted, so that clicking<br>> on the link takes someone into the website, already logged in. The<br>> encrypted info would probably want to expire, say, within a week.
<br>><br>> This doesn't seem possible with the Notification module. Is there<br>> something else that provides a similar service that we might use (some<br>> comments on the Drupal forms suggested that og also sends
<br>> notifications, but it isn't clear if we can ease people's way to<br>> getting into the site).<br>><br>> Ideas?<br>><br>--<br>[ Drupal support list | <a href="http://lists.drupal.org/">http://lists.drupal.org/
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