DisOrder user management

[ewx]

I've been rewriting DisOrder's user management code lately. In the next version the web interface will use cookies instead of HTTP basic authentication and there is a flexible system of user rights behind the scenes.

What you get when you initially visit the web interface is now, instead of a blunt demand for a username and password, read-only access. In fact the administrator can open this up a bit, for instance giving guests the ability to scratch randomly chosen tracks but not those specifically requested by someone.

There is also a registration page where you can create yourself a new login automatically. This can be disabled for sites that would rather a human was in the loop for any new logins.

The full design can be found here but if you don't want to read that, have some screenshots instead:

Note that Choose and Search are greyed out for the guest user. (Searching is really an alternative choose operation, so not as read-only as it sounds.) (It's my web browser that remembered my username and password.)

An example of the confirmation email:

Received: from localhost
	([127.0.0.1] helo=lyonesse.anjou.terraraq.org.uk ident=www-data)
	by lyonesse.anjou.terraraq.org.uk with smtp (Exim 4.63)
	id 1J9IpG-0007LA-Se
	for rjk@greenend.org.uk; Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:28:58 +0000
Message-ID: <muErwzyxgvf+8hDJs+HRN83+4zI=@lyonesse.anjou.terraraq.org.uk>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
From: rjk@greenend.org.uk
To: rjk@greenend.org.uk
Subject: Welcome to DisOrder
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:28:58 +0000

Welcome to DisOrder.  To active your login, please visit this URL:

http://test-jukebox.anjou.terraraq.org.uk/index.cgi?c=dGVzdDI7grD03J4rYQIN1w**

The URL is a little on the long side but I'm guessing most installs won't have quite such long hostnames. After visiting the confirmation URL you are automatically logged in.

Comments

[pm215]

May only contain unaccented Roman letters and digit

What, no J, U or W allowed? :-) (also, should be 'digits').

[ewx.livejournal.com]

“3. denoting the alphabet (or any of the letters in it) used for writing Latin, English, and most European languages, developed in ancient Rome”. And thanks l-)