Hi Andrew
Thanks for prompting me on this one - you might have noticed a
subsequent thread I started because I couldn't remember this post and
Google Groups is sadly lacking in reminders.
Your problem: You want to bypass the login screen.
There is no way to do this 'out of the box', you will need to write
some custom code for it.
When you start up RS, it checks if you have a cookie set and will take
you to the login screen for your password. The only way to avoid this
is to change the logic in 'authenticate.php' to transparently generate
a session cookie and write this to the browser, instead of going
straight to login. It is this session cookie which tells the rest of
RS that you are logged in.
For those people who need to log in, you should be able to go directly
to login.php which I think will write the session cookie and let you
in as an administrator (or whatever level is set).
You might want to hide the logout button for your anonymous users, or
change it to a login button.
These changes are fairly easy, if you have any PHP experience within
your organisation. I do not know if anybody else is currently looking
at this - doubtless they will let us know.
Regards
John
On Oct 17, 11:10 am, Andrew T <
and...@purewasabi.com.au> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Thanks so much for the reply. Ok..
>
> 1. This is on a shared server at
dreamhost.com and is working well
> there. (not heavy usage)
> 2. I can IP restrict via .htaccess . I have this setup already and
> working. I can restrictloginsfrom an IP range too.
> 3. All myloginswill come from a select ip range only.
> 4. Users will not be able to select language or themes. All fixed and
> not optional.
>
> The guest or generaluserwill have little permissions apart from view
> a range of openpublicfolders. The main point really is though not to
> have a login page.
>
> I am open to the guest login if that works this way.
>
> A few e.g scenarios of use would be:
> 1. The admin sends an email with a link to a video or image range to
> the network (IP range).Userclick on the link and does not need to
> login.
> 2.Usercan go to site front page and simply click on a home panel or
> nav item open to thepublicwithout logging in