[dev] help/options links

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Tue Aug 31 07:32:31 PDT 2004


Quoting Roel Gloudemans <roel at gloudemans.info>:

> Hmmm, what would be a good way to block access to the options 
> mechanism? I know you can lock the preferences, but if the 'Options' 
> icon is set to
> 'authenticated users' only a mechanism to block setting options for
> guests only would be nice.

I guess I just don't see the harm - guest settings won't get saved into the
backend anyway.

> I was thinking of another solution. Let the menu detect the 
> permissions on the
> php files. If permissions are thus that the webserver cannot read the files,
> then don't show the options. In this way you could allow overwriting conf.php
> from horde and still keep the shells disallowed.

Eh?

-chuck

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