[consulting] Restrict Group Access to one User Login Account

[Michael Goldsmith]

I tend to agree with Shai here.  It's not a great practice by any stretch of
the imagination.  HOWEVER, I've never met a bad idea that I didn't like.
How about setting up a script to run on cron to periodically change the
email and password back to what you want it to.  Or you can probably set up
some kind of an action to do it, where whenever a user gets edited, change
the email and password to whatever you wanted.  So try as they might, every
time they edit the user, the action runs.

 

Just a thought.  If I come up with anything else, I'll let you know.

 

 

 

Thank you very much for your time and consideration,

Michael Goldsmith
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From: consulting-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:consulting-bounces at drupal.org]
On Behalf Of Shai Gluskin
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 11:30 AM
To: A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers
Subject: Re: [consulting] Restrict Group Access to one User Login Account

 

Holly,

The whole idea is asking for trouble.

I don't even want to think about how to answer this question because this is
such a bad idea. I'd tell the folks that Drupal simply doesn't do this.

Maybe a single userid/pw can be encoded into the video files themselves? 

Is the video file being streamed from your site or a third party service?

I'm sure someone else will have an idea how to help. But I'd recommend
against ideas that get Drupal itself to hide the account page for a logged
in user. Among other bad consequences, you'd be defeating a huge amount of
Drupal functionality and crippling the site for future use-cases.

Shai

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Holly Ferree <hferree at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

I work for a college (drupal 6). They want all of the nursing students to be
able to login using the same username and password that will allow them to
access only nursing tagged content (video pages). I got the access issue to
work with tac-lite. But have had no luck in researching my problem.

My problem is:

How do I restrict a username (ex. Nursing) from accessing the
user/(number)/edit and going to the Account Information section where they
can change the email and reset the password? I don't want one student to be
able to block out 100+ fellow students. That just seems like asking for
trouble.

Thanks,
Holly Ferree

PS On a related note...Is there a good module to play movie files or do I
even need one with Drupal 6?


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