Currently the Elgg site Admin's information and activites will show in the frontend of the site. Sometimes we need a pure backend site Admin account for security reasons. How to achive this within Elgg? Is there any plugins for this purpose?
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You must log in to post replies.Just an idea, not sure it would work. You could manually create an admin user entity with an access level ACCESS_PRIVATE. You would need some bypass for the login though.
But in this way other users can still find admin by searching, right? I do not want ordinary user know the existence of admin account.
If the user account is ACCESS_PRIVATE it wouldn't show up in search. This is a hack, though, because ElggUser entities are always ACCESS_PUBLIC, so I don't know what other side effects it would have in addition to the login problem Ismayil mentioned
Oh, ACCESS_PRIVATE ElggUser sounds cool, I will try it.
Thanks for both of you!
Let us know how it goes. My intuition is private users will cause a lot of problems unless we made sure each view like owner/image blocks doesn't assume it will have a usable user entity, and maybe have some kind of fallback content. I think this is something we need to tackle for private group page owner blocks anyway.