security


Tags:

CMS: Drupal

Thursday - 4:15pm - Thursday - 5:15pm

Room:
room 2

Description:

A comprehensive overview of Drupal's system for securing nodes. This session will cover:

  • How the database is constructed.
  • How the query is rewritten.
  • How it interacts with other Drupal access (particularly permission flags, the published flag and hook_access)
  • The API
  • How to put all this together to write a simple access control module.

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Tags:

CMS: Drupal

not scheduled

Description:

Most Drupal-based sites use password-based authentication. This session will discuss and design proposals for improving the current practices. Current ideas include:

  • Abandoning long-life PHP session cookies
  • Best practices for persistent login (a.k.a. "Remember Me") cookies
  • Not distributing initial account passwords via email
  • Supporting required instead of optional password changes
  • How SSL support should be integrated and configured
  • Preventing hijacking of mixed plaintext/SSL sessions

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