[dev] Admin user - pseudo account

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Kevin Myer <kevin_myer at iu13.org>:

> An idea I had to simplify administration and setup, and hopefully prevent
> lockout of an Admin user, would be to have a pseudo Admin account, 
> that exists
> regardless of the authentication backend.  The account would function in a
> manner similar to the rootdn config in OpenLDAP, or a Directory 
> Manager account
> in other directories.  The account doesn't really exist in the 
> directory tree,
> but just in a config file.  The same would be true for a Horde admin 
> user - the
> pseudo-admin user would exist only in horde/conf.php (and you'd probably have
> to add a admin password config item too).  You could also have more than one
> admin user - the psuedo-admin and one or more from your 
> authentication backend.

This is an interesting idea. The only problem I see is that the 
username selected as the pseudo admin might collide with an existing, 
real user. But I guess people will always find a way to shoot 
themselves in their feet.

Jan.

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