Topic: User Authorization in UBB

[TGreene]

Is there any way that something could be setup whereas only SPECIFIED members can have upload rights..?  It seems that with the way it's setup to automatically use the UBB authentication for user/pass, that anyone that is beyond junior member status has hosting rights.

I'm basically wanting to restrict access to only the users with paid memberships, but don't necessarily want to have to go the route of having to constantly maintain a 'auth_db.txt' file, since members frequently change their own passwords.
If it would be possible to have a file similar to a flatfile, that somehow crosschecked a maintaintained list of authorized user numbers against their assigned UBB user/pass/number, then that would be killer!

Please let me know what this would entail, and what you would charge for this..?

Thanks!

[Mike Bobbitt]

Anything's possible.

How do you denote paying members? If it's in their UBB member file, album.pl can be set to read that value and allow/deny uploads accordingly...

[TGreene]

I'll just be tracking them via the member numbers (00000001, 00000014, 00000257, 00067826, etc...)

IO'm just hoping to get everything into place BEFORE we open up and go public with our site. 

[Mike Bobbitt]

Would you be storing these member #'s anywhere on the server? How would you tell a paying member from a non-paying member? I assume your UBB will treat them differently... maybe by granting them private forum access or something...?

Best idea is to trigger on that. That way, users who have access to the "private" forum (for example) will automatically be allowed to upload... Would take a bit of custom coding, but not too much...

[TGreene]

Yep, we can go that route, since we had planned on a PRIVATE forum anyway. 

[TGreene]

It's working beautifilly.. Thanks so much for all your hard work!