[development] any work done/planned on Drupal"HIBERNATION"feature

[Larry Garfield]

Simple answer:  New permission "able to log in".  To make a site "admin only" for a while, remove that permission from all roles, then only uid 1 can log in.

Active sessions are easy: "DELETE FROM {sessions}". :-)

--Larry Garfield

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:45:32 +0300, "Khalid Baheyeldin" <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
> I wish it was as simple as /user/login. It is not. Users can have active
> sessions
> still, so something needs to be done about those.
> 
> One approach is to log them off explicitly another is checking that they
> don't
> have some special permission (administer site configuration?) and treating
> them as anonymous users (fudge the $user variable?).
> 
> Or maybe they still can browse the site as logged in users, but cannot
> create
> content or comment on content,. That is overly simplistic since there are
> many
> other things that are site specific that fall into that category (e.g.
> voting?
> userpoints? ...etc.)
> 
> I guess there are many definitions to "hibernation" and they will be site
> profile
> specific. No one size fits all.
> 
> On 8/21/07, Greg Holsclaw <Greg.Holsclaw at trouvemedia.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Sorry, should have included 'while still making site content
> available'.
>> This way you don't have broken links during the 'hibernate' period.
>>
>>
>>
>> The main use case for this is for when a site operator doesn't want to
>> deal with the normal submissions users might make (maybe during a
> vacation
>> or other leave of absence), as state during an extended backup/site move
>> period. They want their site to be live, but not have submissions or
> other
>> member contributions made (no database updates).
>>
>>
>>
>> So www.example.com/node/300 still renders, but /user/login is
>> inactive/doesn't work unless you log in with the admin account.
>>
>>
>>
>> Greg
>>
>>
>>  ------------------------------
>>
>> *From:* development-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:
>> development-bounces at drupal.org] *On Behalf Of *Khalid Baheyeldin
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 21, 2007 12:08 PM
>> *To:* development at drupal.org
>> *Subject:* Re: [development] any work done/planned on Drupal
>> "HIBERNATION"feature
>>
>>
>>
>> Site offline does that already, but makes the site offline (duh!)
>>
>> The code to allow admin logging in but not others could be reused though
>> to do what you want without the site going offline.
>>
>> On 8/21/07, *Greg Holsclaw* <Greg.Holsclaw at trouvemedia.com> wrote:
>>
>> I would add one other item.
>>
>>
>>
>>    - a way to turn off login except for the admin. This way you don't
>>    have to worry about member contributed content being added, without
> having
>>    to go to maintenance mode.
>>
>>
>>
>> Greg
>>
>>
>>  ------------------------------
>>
>> *From:* development-bounces at drupal.org
> [mailto:development-bounces at drupal.org]
>> *On Behalf Of *zeljko blace
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 21, 2007 11:15 AM
>> *To:* development at drupal.org
>> *Subject:* [development] any work done/planned on Drupal "HIBERNATION"
>> feature
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi!
>> I am
>> developing a lot of small sites with Drupal with limited
>> activity and would like to know if there were ever discussion or needs
>> from other "deployers" to have their Drupal website HIBERNATE
>> for a while?
>>
>> Good example would be websites that:
>> * promote events and are active only just before/during/after event,
>> while rest of the time they have no need for interactive features and
>> dynamic content.
>> Putting a static copy of website would not do it here as website
>> goes back to active mode from time to time.
>> * are temporarily without administrator/webmaster
>> * that want to limit web use to a specific date/time to have people few
>> people that
>> use website come together on-line in sync
>>
>> ...hope this is not too strange and would resonate well with
>> people who understand that web publishing could be
>> more then networked-digitized print ;-)
>>
>> Best - Zeljko
>>
>>
>>
>>
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