Change admin portal URL to more obvious path and add link in side menu to admin settings for admin users
This URL was chosen by the upstream project and likely tries to follow security by obscurity. Since Fedora Happiness Packets has an authentication mechanism in place to a secure authentication service (i.e. FAS), obscurity makes it harder for admin users to do their job.
Completing this ticket involves two tasks:
fhp.example.com/drunken-octo-lama/
fhp.example.com/admin/
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Hey @jflory7 ! If I am getting this right, you mean we want to have 2 groups, one admin and another user. This ticket aims to provide easy access to admin and some functionality that an admin can have?
@alishapapun Right, there are multiple regular users and possibly multiple admin users. Some of the discussion about this was in #157 starting here.
This ticket adds no new functionality, but makes the admin portal easier to discover when an admin user is logged in. For example, in the drop-down menu with My Received Packets and My Sent Packets, there might be a new link there, Admin settings, when an admin user is logged in.
Does this make sense?
hello @ jflory7, i would like to work on it
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Hi @saidat, sure. How are you thinking to implement this?
Iam going to create a Python module informally called a URLconf (URL configuration). This module is pure Python code and it will be a mapping between URL path expressions to Python functions. The value of the url config will be used in place of the ROOT_URLCONF setting. That's what i think
@alishapapun Right, there are multiple regular users and possibly multiple admin users. Some of the discussion about this was in #157 starting here. This ticket adds no new functionality but makes the admin portal easier to discover when an admin user is logged in. For example, in the drop-down menu with My Received Packets and My Sent Packets, there might be a new link there, Admin settings, when an admin user is logged in. Does this make sense?
Absolutely! That makes sense as well. But how are we planning to implement since fedora-happiness-packet authenticate using ipsilon which according to me does not provide any specific facility to any fas-account holders (all are treated as users)?
The task seems quite interesting to work on though. I would like to volunteer to take up the task.
For implementation, in base.html, under the section if user.is_authenticated we need to check whether the current logged-in user is a superuser using this. If yes, using Admin Reverse URLs for fetching the URL to the Django Admin SIte, we need to add a new list item for accessing the Admin Portal.
if user.is_authenticated
Hope this helps! :)
Thanks @shraddhaag. @alishapapun, does this answer your question? The changes in PR #214 may be useful to review too.
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See PR #236 from @alishapapun for this ticket.
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And PR merged. :smile: Closing as complete!
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