User Access & Authentication

Overview

Role Limits is a small, but useful, module that allows for users with proper permissions to set a limit on the number of users in a given role. Think of this module very much like "Maximum Node Population" in CCK only for users. This could be useful when a site is licensed for use to a third party. It allows the source of the license to set limits on how many users can utilize the site. Currently this interacts with all user operations whether it be an update from the user profile or from the user list.

This module provides a bridge between Drupal and EZProxy.

EZProxy helps provide users with remote access to Web-based licensed content offered by libraries. It is middleware that authenticates library users against local authentication systems and provides remote access to licensed content based on the user’s authorization.

There are three main methods of authenticating between Drupal and EZProxy:

The Janrain Social Login module integrates Drupal sites with the Janrain Social Login service.

Using Janrain Social Login, Drupal sites can authenticate new and existing users with popular social networks, map user profile data from these websites to Drupal fields, and share Drupal content with a user's friends on their social networks.

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The purpose of Spamicide is to prevent spam submission to any form on your Drupal web site. Spamicide adds an input field to each form then hides it with css, when spam bots fill in the field the form is discarded. The field, and matching .css file, are named in such a way as to not let on that it is a spam defeating device, and can be set by admins to almost anything they like(machine readable please). If logging is set, the log will show if and when a particular form has been compromised, and the admin can change the form's field name (and corresponding .css file) to something else.

Allows node editing access based on menu relationships.

The Menu Node Edit module allows the site's menu system to be used as the sole organizing principle. It does so by allowing specific menu items to be defined as 'sections' of a Drupal web site. Individual users can then be assigned as editors of one or more sections.

Section editors are then granted access to edit all nodes that fall within a specified menu hierarchy.

Google Friend Connect (GFC) provides simple user authentication using any OpenID account, including Google, Yahoo and AIM.

This module allows role inheritance for complex organizations. This reduces the
number of duplicated or assigned privs and access.

Example

For a new site, there are *Writers, Editors and Global Editors*. The Writers and
editors are assigned privs to write/post/edit content on separate sections
(Sports, Entertainment, Weather, etc...) and the *Global Editor* has access
across all sections.

This module alters the login form so it expects the User ID number instead of the user name
It also removes the necessity of usernames being unique.

Security note: Sites with uid login should insist on or require strong passwords than normal, since hackers know the usernames already. Especially for user 1!

Gives content access permissions to users if they have access to content that is referenced with Node reference or Entity reference.