DeepaMehta 3 Accounts Plugin

Restricts access to DeepaMehta 3 by putting a login dialog at application start. Accounts can be created and modified by the user. One account is pre-configured.

Note: there is no access control mechanism with individual permissions yet. This plugin just restricts a DeepaMehta 3 installation to a set of well-known users. Each user, once logged in, has access to everything.

Requirements

• A DeepaMehta 3 installation
  http://github.com/jri/deepamehta3

Installation

1. Go to your DeepaMehta 3 installation directory: cd deepamehta3

2. Download DeepaMehta 3 Accounts Plugin: couchapp vendor install git://github.com/jri/dm3-accounts.git

3. Activate the plugin by inserting one line to DeepaMehta's _attachments/javascript/plugins.js: add_plugin("vendor/dm3-accounts/script/dm3_accounts.js")

4. Copy additional stuff: cp -r vendor/dm3-accounts/views/dm3-accounts views

5. Upload changes to CouchDB: couchapp push http://localhost:5984/deepamehta3-db

Usage

1. Visit DeepaMehta 3 in your webbrowser (resp. press reload): http://localhost:5984/deepamehta3-db/_design/deepamehta3/index.html A login dialog will appear.

2. Login as admin. Leave the Password field empty.

Create another account

1. Accounts are ordinary DeepaMehta 3 topics. You'll find an additional topic type Account in the type menu (next to the Create button). Create an account.

2. Fill in the Username and Password fields and click Save. The new account is active from now on. (To test it return to the login dialog by pressing the browser's Reload button.)

Modify an account

1. Search for the account (e.g. by fulltext or time search) and reveal it.

2. Click the Edit button and make your changes, e.g. change the password, and click Save.

Updating

1. Go to your DeepaMehta 3 installation directory: cd deepamehta3

2. Update DeepaMehta 3 Accounts Plugin: couchapp vendor update dm3-accounts

3. Copy additional stuff: cp -r vendor/dm3-accounts/views/dm3-accounts views

4. Upload changes to CouchDB: couchapp push http://localhost:5984/deepamehta3-db

Version History

v0.3 -- Mar 6, 2010

• Topic type "Account" got an icon
• Account "Notes" is a rich text field
• Compatible with DeepaMehta 3 v0.3

v0.2 -- Dec 1, 2009

• Basic functionality
• Requires DeepaMehta 3 v0.2

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Jörg Richter
Mar 6, 2009