db_query("UPDATE {users} SET data = '%s' WHERE uid = %d", serialize($data), $user->uid);
// Build the finished user object.
$user = user_load(array('uid' => $array['uid']));
}
// Save distributed authentication mappings
foreach ($array as $key => $value) {
if (substr($key, 0, 4) == 'auth') {
$authmaps[$key] = $value;
}
}
if ($authmaps) {
user_set_authmaps($user, $authmaps);
}
return $user;
}
/**
* Verify the syntax of the given name.
*/
function user_validate_name($name) {
if (!$name) return t('You must enter a username.');
if (substr($name, 0, 1) == ' ') return t('The username cannot begin with a space.');
if (substr($name, -1) == ' ') return t('The username cannot end with a space.');
if (ereg(' ', $name)) return t('The username cannot contain multiple spaces in a row.');
if (ereg("[^\x80-\xF7 [:alnum:]@_.-]", $name)) return t('The username contains an illegal character.');
if (ereg('@', $name) && !eregi('@([0-9a-z](-?[0-9a-z])*.)+[a-z]{2}([zmuvtg]|fo|me)?$', $name)) return t('The username is not a valid authentication ID.');
if (strlen($name) > 56) return t('The username %name is too long: it must be less than 56 characters.', array('%name' => theme('placeholder', $name)));
}
function user_validate_mail($mail) {
if (!$mail) return t('You must enter an e-mail address.');
if (!valid_email_address($mail)) {
return t('The e-mail address %mail is not valid.', array('%mail' => theme('placeholder', $mail)));
}
}
function user_validate_picture($file, &$edit, $user) {
// Initialize the picture:
$edit['picture'] = $user->picture;
// Check that uploaded file is an image, with a maximum file size
else if (filesize($file->filepath) > (variable_get('user_picture_file_size', '30') * 1000)) {
form_set_error('picture', t('The uploaded image is too large; the maximum file size is %size kB.', array('%size' => variable_get('user_picture_file_size', '30'))));
}
else if ($info['width'] > $maxwidth || $info['height'] > $maxheight) {
form_set_error('picture', t('The uploaded image is too large; the maximum dimensions are %dimensions pixels.', array('%dimensions' => variable_get('user_picture_dimensions', '85x85'))));
* Determine whether the user has a given privilege.
*
* @param $string
* The permission, such as "administer nodes", being checked for.
* @param $account
* (optional) The account to check, if not given use currently logged in user.
*
* @return
* TRUE iff the current user has the requested permission.
*
* All permission checks in Drupal should go through this function. This
* way, we guarantee consistent behavior, and ensure that the superuser
* can perform all actions.
*/
function user_access($string, $account = NULL) {
global $user;
static $perm = array();
if (is_null($account)) {
$account = $user;
}
// User #1 has all privileges:
if ($account->uid == 1) {
return 1;
}
// To reduce the number of SQL queries, we cache the user's permissions
// in a static variable.
if (!isset($perm[$account->uid])) {
$result = db_query('SELECT DISTINCT(p.perm) FROM {role} r INNER JOIN {permission} p ON p.rid = r.rid INNER JOIN {users_roles} ur ON ur.rid = r.rid WHERE ur.uid = %d', $account->uid);
while ($row = db_fetch_object($result)) {
$perm[$account->uid] .= "$row->perm, ";
}
}
return strstr($perm[$account->uid], "$string, ");
}
/**
* Send an e-mail message.
*/
function user_mail($mail, $subject, $message, $header) {
if (variable_get('smtp_library', '') && file_exists(variable_get('smtp_library', ''))) {
$output = form_select(t('User activity'), 'user_block_seconds_online', variable_get('user_block_seconds_online', 900), $period, t('A user is considered online for this long after they have last viewed a page.'));
$output .= form_select(t('User list length'), 'user_block_max_list_count', variable_get('user_block_max_list_count', 10), drupal_map_assoc(array(0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 75, 100)), t('Maximum number of currently online users to display.'));
// Perform database queries to gather online user lists.
$guests = db_fetch_object(db_query('SELECT COUNT(sid) AS count FROM {sessions} WHERE timestamp >= %d AND uid = 0', time() - $time_period));
$users = db_query('SELECT DISTINCT(uid), MAX(timestamp) AS max_timestamp FROM {sessions} WHERE timestamp >= %d AND uid != 0 GROUP BY uid ORDER BY max_timestamp DESC', time() - $time_period );
$total_users = db_num_rows($users);
// Format the output with proper grammar.
if ($total_users == 1 && $guests->count == 1) {
$output = t('There is currently %members and %visitors online.', array('%members' => format_plural($total_users, '1 user', '%count users'), '%visitors' => format_plural($guests->count, '1 guest', '%count guests')));
}
else {
$output = t('There are currently %members and %visitors online.', array('%members' => format_plural($total_users, '1 user', '%count users'), '%visitors' => format_plural($guests->count, '1 guest', '%count guests')));
$output .= form_textfield(t('Username'), 'name', $edit['name'], 30, 64, t('Enter your %s username, or an ID from one of our affiliates: %a.', array('%s' => variable_get('site_name', 'local'), '%a' => implode(', ', user_auth_help_links()))));
// The first user may login immediately, and receives a customized welcome e-mail.
if ($account->uid == 1) {
user_mail($edit['mail'], t('drupal user account details for %s', array('%s' => $edit['name'])), strtr(t("%username,\n\nYou may now login to %uri using the following username and password:\n\n username: %username\n password: %password\n\n%edit_uri\n\n--drupal"), $variables), "From: $from\nReply-to: $from\nX-Mailer: Drupal\nReturn-path: $from\nErrors-to: $from");
// This should not be t()'ed. No point as its only shown once in the sites lifetime, and it would be bad to store the password.
$output .= "<p>Welcome to Drupal. You are user #1, which gives you full and immediate access. All future registrants will receive their passwords via e-mail, so please configure your e-mail settings using the Administration pages.</p><p> Your password is <strong>$pass</strong>. You may change your password on the next page.</p><p>Please login below.</p>";
user_mail(variable_get('site_mail', ini_get('sendmail_from')), $subject, t("%u has applied for an account.\n\n%uri", array('%u' => $account->name, '%uri' => url("user/$account->uid/edit", NULL, NULL, TRUE))), "From: $from\nReply-to: $from\nX-Mailer: Drupal\nReturn-path: $from\nErrors-to: $from");
return t('Thank you for applying for an account. Your account is currently pending approval by the site administrator.<br />In the meantime, your password and further instructions have been sent to your e-mail address.');
$output .= '<p>'. t('Note: if you have an account with one of our affiliates (%s), you may <a href="%login_uri">login now</a> instead of registering.', array('%s' => $affiliates, '%login_uri' => url('user'))) .'</p>';
}
$default = form_textfield(t('Username'), 'name', $edit['name'], 30, 64, t('Your full name or your preferred username; only letters, numbers and spaces are allowed.'), NULL, TRUE);
$default .= form_textfield(t('E-mail address'), 'mail', $edit['mail'], 30, 64, t('A password and instructions will be sent to this e-mail address, so make sure it is accurate.'), NULL, TRUE);
$group = form_textfield(t('Username'), 'name', $edit['name'], 30, 55, t('Your full name or your preferred username: only letters, numbers and spaces are allowed.'), NULL, TRUE);
$group .= form_textfield(t('E-mail address'), 'mail', $edit['mail'], 30, 55, t('Insert a valid e-mail address. All e-mails from the system will be sent to this address. The e-mail address is not made public and will only be used if you wish to receive a new password or wish to receive certain news or notifications by e-mail.'), NULL, TRUE);
$group .= form_item(t('Password'), '<input type="password" class="form-password" name="edit[pass1]" size="12" maxlength="24" /> <input type="password" class="form-password" name="edit[pass2]" size="12" maxlength="24" />', t('Enter your new password twice if you want to change your current password, or leave it blank if you are happy with your current password.'), NULL, TRUE);
$group .= form_checkboxes(t('Roles'), 'roles', array_keys($edit['roles']), user_roles(1), t('Select at least one role. The user receives the combined permissions of all of the selected roles.'), NULL, TRUE);
if ($edit['picture'] && ($picture = theme_user_picture(array2object($edit)))) {
$group .= $picture;
$group .= form_checkbox(t('Delete picture'), 'picture_delete', 1, 0, t('Check this box to delete your current picture.'));
}
$group .= form_file(t('Upload picture'), 'picture', 48, t('Your virtual face or picture. Maximum dimensions are %dimensions and the maximum size is %size kB.', array('%dimensions' => variable_get('user_picture_dimensions', '85x85'), '%size' => variable_get('user_picture_file_size', '30'))) .' '. variable_get('user_picture_guidelines', ''));
/*** Administrative features ***********************************************/
function _user_mail_text($messageid, $variables = array()) {
// Check if an admin setting overrides the default string.
if ($admin_setting = variable_get('user_mail_' . $messageid, FALSE)) {
return strtr($admin_setting, $variables);
}
// No override, return with default strings.
else {
switch ($messageid) {
case 'welcome_subject':
return t('Account details for %username at %site', $variables);
case 'welcome_body':
return t("%username,\n\nThank you for registering at %site. You may now log in to %login_uri using the following username and password:\n\nusername: %username\npassword: %password\n\nAfter logging in, you may wish to change your password at %edit_uri\n\nYour new %site membership also enables to you to login to other Drupal powered websites (e.g. http://www.drupal.org/) without registering. Just use the following Drupal ID and password:\n\nDrupal ID: %username@%uri_brief\npassword: %password\n\n\n-- %site team", $variables);
case 'approval_subject':
return t('Account details for %username at %site (pending admin approval)', $variables);
case 'approval_body':
return t("%username,\n\nThank you for registering at %site. Your application for an account is currently pending approval. Once it has been granted, you may log in to %login_uri using the following username and password:\n\nusername: %username\npassword: %password\n\nAfter logging in, you may wish to change your password at %edit_uri\n\nYour new %site membership also enables to you to login to other Drupal powered websites (e.g. http://www.drupal.org/) without registering. Just use the following Drupal ID and password:\n\nDrupal ID: %username@%uri_brief\npassword: %password\n\n\n-- %site team", $variables);
case 'pass_subject':
return t('Replacement login information for %username at %site', $variables);
case 'pass_body':
return t("%username,\n\nHere is your new password for %site. You may now login to %login_uri using the following username and password:\n\nusername: %username\npassword: %password\n\nAfter logging in, you may wish to change your password at %edit_uri", $variables);
}
}
}
function user_configure_settings() {
// User registration settings.
$group = form_radios(t('Public registrations'), 'user_register', variable_get('user_register', 1), array(t('Only site administrators can create new user accounts.'), t('Visitors can create accounts and no administrator approval is required.'), t('Visitors can create accounts but administrator approval is required.')));
$group .= form_textarea(t('User registration guidelines'), 'user_registration_help', variable_get('user_registration_help', ''), 70, 4, t('This text is displayed at the top of the user registration form. It\'s useful for helping or instructing your users.'));
$group = form_textfield(t('Subject of welcome e-mail'), 'user_mail_welcome_subject', _user_mail_text('welcome_subject'), 70, 180, t('Customize the subject of your welcome e-mail, which is sent to new members upon registering.') .' '. t('Available variables are:') .' %username, %site, %password, %uri, %uri_brief, %mailto, %date, %login_uri, %edit_uri.');
$group .= form_textarea(t('Body of welcome e-mail'), 'user_mail_welcome_body', _user_mail_text('welcome_body'), 70, 10, t('Customize the body of the welcome e-mail, which is sent to new members upon registering.') .' '. t('Available variables are:') .' %username, %site, %password, %uri, %uri_brief, %mailto, %login_uri, %edit_uri.');
$group .= form_textfield(t('Subject of welcome e-mail (awaiting admin approval)'), 'user_mail_approval_subject', _user_mail_text('approval_subject'), 70, 180, t('Customize the subject of your awaiting approval welcome e-mail, which is sent to new members upon registering.') .' '. t('Available variables are:') .' %username, %site, %password, %uri, %uri_brief, %mailto, %date, %login_uri, %edit_uri.');
$group .= form_textarea(t('Body of welcome e-mail (awaiting admin approval)'), 'user_mail_approval_body', _user_mail_text('approval_body'), 70, 10, t('Customize the body of the awaiting approval welcome e-mail, which is sent to new members upon registering.') .' '. t('Available variables are:') .' %username, %site, %password, %uri, %uri_brief, %mailto, %login_uri, %edit_uri.');
$group .= form_textfield(t('Subject of password recovery e-mail'), 'user_mail_pass_subject', _user_mail_text('pass_subject'), 70, 180, t('Customize the Subject of your forgotten password e-mail.') .' '. t('Available variables are:') .' %username, %site, %password, %uri, %uri_brief, %mailto, %date, %login_uri, %edit_uri.');
$group .= form_textarea(t('Body of password recovery e-mail'), 'user_mail_pass_body', _user_mail_text('pass_body'), 70, 10, t('Customize the body of the forgotten password e-mail.') .' '. t('Available variables are:') .' %username, %site, %password, %uri, %uri_brief, %mailto, %login_uri, %edit_uri.');
$group .= form_textfield(t('Picture image path'), 'user_picture_path', variable_get('user_picture_path', 'pictures'), 45, 255, t('Subdirectory in the directory "%dir" where pictures will be stored.', array('%dir' => variable_get('file_directory_path', 'files') .'/')));
$group .= form_textfield(t('Default picture'), 'user_picture_default', variable_get('user_picture_default', ''), 45, 255, t('URL of picture to display for users with no custom picture selected. Leave blank for none.'));
$group .= form_textfield(t('Picture maximum dimensions'), 'user_picture_dimensions', variable_get('user_picture_dimensions', '85x85'), 10, 10, t('Maximum dimensions for pictures.'));
$group .= form_textfield(t('Picture maximum file size'), 'user_picture_file_size', variable_get('user_picture_file_size', '30'), 10, 10, t('Maximum file size for pictures, in kB.'));
$group .= form_textarea(t('Picture guidelines'), 'user_picture_guidelines', variable_get('user_picture_guidelines', ''), 70, 4, t('This text is displayed at the picture upload form in addition to the default guidelines. It\'s useful for helping or instructing your users.'));
$output .= form_group(t('Pictures'), $group);
return $output;
}
function user_admin_create($edit = array()) {
if ($edit) {
// Because the admin form doesn't have roles selection they need to be set to validate properly
drupal_set_message(t('Created a new user account. No e-mail has been sent.'));
return;
}
}
$output = form_textfield(t('Username'), 'name', $edit['name'], 30, 55, t('Provide the username of the new account.'), NULL, TRUE);
$output .= form_textfield(t('E-mail address'), 'mail', $edit['mail'], 30, 55, t('Provide the e-mail address associated with the new account.'), NULL, TRUE);
$output .= form_password(t('Password'), 'pass', $edit['pass'], 30, 55, t('Provide a password for the new account.'), NULL, TRUE);
$output .= form_submit(t('Create account'));
$output = form_group(t('Create new user account'), $output);
return form($output);
}
/**
* Menu callback: check an access rule
*/
function user_admin_access_check() {
if ($_POST['op']) {
$op = $_POST['op'];
}
$edit = $_POST['edit'];
if ($op) {
if (user_deny($edit['type'], $edit['test'])) {
drupal_set_message(t('%test is not allowed.', array('%test' => theme('placeholder', $edit['test']))));
}
else {
drupal_set_message(t('%test is allowed.', array('%test' => theme('placeholder', $edit['test']))));
}
}
$form = form_textfield(t('Username'), 'test', '', 32, 64, t('Enter a username to check if it will be denied or allowed.'));
$form .= form_hidden('type', 'user');
$form .= form_submit('Check username');
$output .= form($form);
$form = form_textfield(t('E-mail'), 'test', '', 32, 64, t('Enter an e-mail address to check if it will be denied or allowed.'));
$form .= form_hidden('type', 'mail');
$form .= form_submit('Check e-mail');
$output .= form($form);
print theme('page', $output);
}
/**
* Menu callback: add an access rule
*/
function user_admin_access_add() {
if ($edit = $_POST['edit']) {
if (!$edit['mask']) {
form_set_error('mask', t('You must enter a mask.'));
$edit = db_fetch_object(db_query('SELECT aid, type, status, mask FROM {access} WHERE aid = %d', $aid));
$output = theme('confirm',
t('Are you sure you want to delete the %type rule for %rule?', array('%type' => $access_types[$edit->type], '%rule' => theme('placeholder', $edit->mask))),
'admin/access/rules',
t('This action cannot be undone.'),
t('Delete'),
t('Cancel'),
$extra);
print theme('page', $output);
}
}
/**
* Menu callback: edit an access rule
*/
function user_admin_access_edit($aid = 0) {
if ($edit = $_POST['edit']) {
if (!$edit['mask']) {
form_set_error('mask', t('You must enter a mask.'));
}
else {
db_query("UPDATE {access} SET mask = '%s', type = '%s', status = '%s' WHERE aid = %d", $edit['mask'], $edit['type'], $edit['status'], $aid);
drupal_set_message(t('The access rule has been saved.'));
drupal_goto('admin/access/rules');
}
}
else {
$edit = db_fetch_array(db_query('SELECT aid, type, status, mask FROM {access} WHERE aid = %d', $aid));
$output .= '<div class="mask">'. form_textfield(t('Mask'), 'mask', $edit['mask'], 32, 64, '%: '. t('Matches any number of characters, even zero characters') .'.<br />_: '. t('Matches exactly one character.'), NULL, TRUE) .'</div>';
db_query("UPDATE {role} SET name = '%s' WHERE rid = %d", $edit['name'], $id);
drupal_set_message(t('The changes have been saved.'));
}
else {
form_set_error('name', t('You must specify a valid role name.'));
}
}
else if ($op == t('Delete role')) {
db_query('DELETE FROM {role} WHERE rid = %d', $id);
db_query('DELETE FROM {permission} WHERE rid = %d', $id);
// Update the users who have this role set:
$result = db_query('SELECT DISTINCT(ur1.uid) FROM {users_roles} ur1 LEFT JOIN {users_roles} ur2 ON ur2.uid = ur1.uid WHERE ur1.rid = %d AND ur2.rid != ur1.rid', $id);
$uid = array();
while ($u = db_fetch_object($result)) {
$uid[] = $u->uid;
}
if ($uid) {
db_query('DELETE FROM {users_roles} WHERE rid = %d AND uid IN (%s)', $id, implode(', ', $uid));
}
// Users with only the deleted role are put back in the authenticated users pool.
db_query('UPDATE {users_roles} SET rid = %d WHERE rid = %d', _user_authenticated_id(), $id);
drupal_set_message(t('The role has been deleted.'));
drupal_goto('admin/access/roles');
}
else if ($op == t('Add role')) {
if ($edit['name']) {
db_query("INSERT INTO {role} (name) VALUES ('%s')", $edit['name']);
drupal_set_message(t('The role has been added.'));
drupal_goto('admin/access/roles');
}
else {
form_set_error('name', t('You must specify a valid role name.'));
}
}
else if ($id) {
// Display the role form.
$role = db_fetch_object(db_query('SELECT * FROM {role} WHERE rid = %d', $id));
$output .= form_textfield(t('Role name'), 'name', $role->name, 32, 64, t('The name for this role. Example: "moderator", "editorial board", "site architect".'));
$output .= form_submit(t('Save role'));
$output .= form_submit(t('Delete role'));
$output = form($output);
}
if (!$output) {
// Render the role overview.
$result = db_query('SELECT * FROM {role} ORDER BY name');
return t('<p>Drupal allows users to register, login, logout, maintain user profiles, etc. No participant can use his own name to post content until he signs up for a user account.</p>');
case 'admin/user/create':
case 'admin/user/account/create':
return t('<p>This web page allows the administrators to register a new users by hand. Note that you cannot have a user where either the e-mail address or the username match another user in the system.</p>');
case 'admin/access/rules':
return t('<p>Set up username and e-mail address access rules for new accounts. If a username or email address for a new account matches any deny rule, but not an allow rule, then the new account will not be allowed to be created.</p>');
case 'admin/access':
return t('<p>In this area you will define the permissions for each user role (role names are defined on the <a href="%role">user roles page</a>). Each permission describes a fine-grained logical operation, such as being able to access the administration pages, or adding/modifying a user account. You could say a permission represents access granted to a user to perform a set of operations.</p>', array('%role' => url('admin/access/roles')));
case 'admin/access/roles':
return t('<p>Roles allow you to fine tune the security and administration of drupal. A role defines a group of users that have certain privileges as defined in <a href="%permissions">user permissions</a>. Examples of roles include: anonymous user, authenticated user, moderator, administrator and so on. In this area you will define the <em>role names</em> of the various roles. To delete a role choose "edit".</p><p>By default, Drupal comes with two user roles:</p>
<ul>
<li>Anonymous user: this role is used for users that don\'t have a user account or that are not authenticated.</li>
<li>Authenticated user: this role is assigned automatically to authenticated users. Most registered users will belong to this user role unless specified otherwise.</li>
return t('<p>Enter a simple pattern ("*" may be user as a wildcard match) to search for a username. For example, one may search for "br" and Drupal might return "brian", "brad", and "brenda".</p>');
case 'admin/modules#description':
return t('Manages the user registration and login system.');
case 'admin/user/configure':
case 'admin/user/configure/settings':
return t('<p>In order to use the full power of Drupal a visitor must sign up for an account. This page lets you setup how a user signs up, logs out, the guidelines from the system about user subscriptions, and the e-mails the system will send to the user.</p>');
<p>One of the more tedious moments in visiting a new website is filling out the registration form. Here at %site, you do not have to fill out a registration form if you are already a member of %help-links. This capability is called <em>distributed authentication</em>, and is unique to <a href=\"%drupal\">Drupal</a>, the software which powers %site.</p>
<p>Distributed authentication enables a new user to input a username and password into the login box, and immediately be recognized, even if that user never registered at %site. This works because Drupal knows how to communicate with external registration databases. For example, lets say that new user 'Joe' is already a registered member of <a href=\"%delphi-forums\">Delphi Forums</a>. Drupal informs Joe on registration and login screens that he may login with his Delphi ID instead of registering with %site. Joe likes that idea, and logs in with a username of joe@remote.delphiforums.com and his usual Delphi password. Drupal then contacts the <em>remote.delphiforums.com</em> server behind the scenes (usually using <a href=\"%xml\">XML-RPC</a>, <a href=\"%http-post\">HTTP POST</a>, or <a href=\"%soap\">SOAP</a>) and asks: \"Is the password for user Joe correct?\". If Delphi replies yes, then we create a new %site account for Joe and log him into it. Joe may keep on logging into %site in the same manner, and he will always be logged into the same account.</p>", array('%help-links' => (implode(', ', user_auth_help_links())), '%site' => "<em>$site</em>", '%drupal' => 'http://www.drupal.org', '%delphi-forums' => 'http://www.delphiforums.com', '%xml' => 'http://www.xmlrpc.com', '%http-post' => 'http://www.w3.org/Protocols/', '%soap' => 'http://www.soapware.org'));
<p>Drupal offers a powerful access system that allows users to register, login, logout, maintain user profiles, etc. By using <a href=\"%user-role\">roles</a> you can setup fine grained <a href=\"%user-permission\">permissions</a> allowing each role to do only what you want them to. Each user is assigned to one or more roles. By default there are two roles \"anonymous\" - a user who has not logged in, and \"authorized\" a user who has signed up and who has been authorized. As anonymous users, participants suffer numerous disadvantages, for example they cannot sign their names to nodes, and their moderated posts beginning at a lower score.</p>
<p>In contrast, those with a user account can use their own name or handle and are granted various privileges: the most important is probably the ability to moderate new submissions, to rate comments, and to fine-tune the site to their personal liking, with saved personal settings. Drupal themes make fine tuning quite a pleasure.</p>
<p>Registered users need to authenticate by supplying either a local username and password, or a remote username and password such as a <a href=\"%jabber\">Jabber ID</a>, <a href=\"%delphi-forums\">DelphiForums ID</a>, or one from a <a href=\"%drupal\">Drupal powered</a> website. See the <a href=\"%da-auth\">distributed authentication help</a> for more information on this innovative feature.
The local username and password, hashed with Message Digest 5 (MD5), are stored in your database. When you enter a password it is also hashed with MD5 and compared with what is in the database. If the hashes match, the username and password are correct. Once a user authenticated session is started, and until that session is over, the user won't have to re-authenticate. To keep track of the individual sessions, Drupal relies on <a href=\"%php-sess\">PHP sessions</a>. A visitor accessing your website is assigned an unique ID, the so-called session ID, which is stored in a cookie. For security's sake, the cookie does not contain personal information but acts as a key to retrieve the information stored on your server. When a visitor accesses your site, Drupal will check whether a specific session ID has been sent with the request. If this is the case, the prior saved environment is recreated.</p>
<h3>User preferences and profiles</h3><p>Each Drupal user has a profile, and a set of preferences which may be edited by clicking on the \"<a href=\"%user-prefs\">my account</a>\" link. Of course, a user must be logged into reach those pages. There, users will find a page for changing their preferred time zone, language, username, e-mail address, password, theme, signature, and <a href=\"%da-auth\">distributed authentication names</a>. Changes made here take effect immediately. Also, administrators may make profile and preferences changes in <a href=\"%admin-user\">account administration</a> on behalf of their users.</p>
<p>One of the more tedious moments in visiting a new website is filling out the registration form. The reg form provides helpful information to the website owner, but not much value for the user. The value for the end user is usually the ability to post a messages or receive personalized news, etc. Distributed authentication (DA) gives the user what they want without having to fill out the reg form. Removing this obstacle yields more registered and active users for the website.</p>
<p>DA enables a new user to input a username and password into the login box and immediately be recognized, even if that user never registered on your site. This works because Drupal knows how to communicate with external registration databases. For example, lets say that your new user 'Joe' is already a registered member of Delphi Forums. If your Drupal has the delphi module installed, then Drupal will inform Joe on the registration and login screens that he may login with his Delphi ID instead of registering with your Drupal instance. Joe likes that idea, and logs in with a username of joe@remote.delphiforums.com and his usual Delphi password. Drupal then communicates with remote.delphiforums.com (usually using <a href=\"%xml\">XML</a>, <a href=\"%http-post\">HTTP-POST</a>, or <a href=\"%soap\">SOAP</a>) behind the scenes and asks "is this password for username=joe?" If Delphi replies yes, then Drupal will create a new local account for joe and log joe into it. Joe may keep on logging into your Drupal instance in the same manner, and he will be logged into the same joe@remote.delphiforums.com account.</p>
<p>One key element of DA is the 'authmap' table, which maps a user's authname (e.g. joe@remote.delphiforums.com) to his local UID (i.e. user identification number). This map is checked whenever a user successfully logs into an external authentication source. Once Drupal knows that the current user is definitely joe@remote.delphiforums.com (because Delphi says so), he looks up Joe's UID and logs Joe into that account.</p>
<p>To disable distributed authentication, simply <a href=\"%dis-module\">disable</a> or remove all DA modules. For a virgin install, that means removing/disabling the jabber module and the drupal module.</p>
<p>Drupal is setup so that it is very easy to add support for any external authentication source. You currently have the following authentication modules installed ...</p>", array('%user-role' => url('admin/access/roles'), '%user-permission' => url('admin/access/permissions'), '%jabber' => 'http://www.jabber.org/', '%delphi-forums' => 'http://www.delphiforums.com/', '%drupal' => 'http://www.drupal.org/', '%da-auth' => url('admin/help/user#da'), '%php-sess' => 'http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php', '%admin-user' => url('admin/user'), '%xml' => 'http://www.xmlrpc.org/', '%http-post' => 'http://www.w3.org/Protocols/', '%soap' => 'http://www.soapware.org/', '%dis-module' => url('admin/modules'), '%user-prefs' => url('user/' . $user->uid)));