<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Steve Wickham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@wickwoodonline.com" target="_blank">steve@wickwoodonline.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">>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.<div>
<br></div><div>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.</div>
<br></blockquote><div><br><<a href="http://drupal.org/project/rename_admin_paths">http://drupal.org/project/rename_admin_paths</a>><br><p>This module allows you to:</p>
<ul><li>rename path like '/admin/...' to '/something/...'</li><li>rename path like '/user/..' to '/something else/..'</li></ul><p>It can be effective against registration spam bots or malicious people.</p>
<p>This small module just implements hook_outbound_alter and hook_inbound_alter to rename paths.<br>
A settings form allows to choose replacement term for "admin" and "user".</p><br><br><br><br> </div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Al Sessions<br><a href="http://420summit.com" target="_blank">http://valecemetery.org</a></div>
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