For my last Meteor React app I’ve designed the most simple role based access control. The basic idea is that users can have multiple roles and every action possible is only allowed by a specified set of roles. For my Meteor React app the following scenarios were considered:
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One of the popular features of Meteor is its accounts package. As you know, it makes it fairly easy to add a user authentication solution to your Meteor app or add support for different oAuth services. With the possibility to integrate an Apollo GraphQL API into your Meteor app this became a bit more difficult. The Apollo stack does not support an out of the box solutions to authenticate users with Meteor accounts. Jonas Helfer, one of the Apollo core devs, proposed two ways to authenticate users with your app:
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For Meteor there are not many options left when choosing a user account package. The built-in option is the only use- and successful solution so far. The package is well documented and works like a charm. However, whenever I set up the account system in Meteor I am confronted with these two scenarios:
These are two fundamental obstacles almost every developer faces when setting up the account system. There are a lot of solutions out there on how to do this in Meteor properly, but a lot of them are poorly described and make it difficult the get the right idea of how the account system works. It got even more difficult due to API changes and Meteor itself that changed a lot over years. Now I would like to give a good example for this two questions.
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Recently I started using Mantra to develop my Meteor apps. As with any other framework You’ll find a lot of answers to common questions in a related forum or any other resource. However I couldn’t get a good answer on how to implement routing logic properly. The Mantra specs also don’t tell much about how to approach it. So here’s my solution.
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The following scripts allows you to compare the group membership of two users.
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Welcome to the final part of my tutorial. In this last part we are going to write our view and run the client application.
The client application consists of a login and a data pane. When you’ve successfully logged in, the visibility of these panes will be switched. That’s all you have to know. In case you want to use scene builder to create the client GUI here’s a picture of what you have to build:
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If you don’t have access to you WordPress website anymore, but still can update the MySQL database. You can easily add a new admin user with this sql script:
USE <database>;
SET @username = '<username>';
SET @password = MD5('<password>');
SET @fullname = '<Firstname Lastname>';
SET @email = '<login@example.com>';
SET @url = '<http://example.com/>';
INSERT INTO `wp_users` (`user_login`, `user_pass`, `user_nicename`, `user_email`, `user_url`, `user_registered`, `user_status`, `display_name`) VALUES (@username, @password, @fullname, @email, @url, NOW(), '0', @fullname);
SET @userid = LAST_INSERT_ID();
INSERT INTO `wp_usermeta` (`user_id`, `meta_key`, `meta_value`) VALUES (@userid, 'wp_capabilities', 'a:1:{s:13:"administrator";s:1:"1";}');
INSERT INTO `wp_usermeta` (`user_id`, `meta_key`, `meta_value`) VALUES (@userid, 'wp_user_level', '10');
Get the latest version of this snippet here: https://gist.github.com/25d9f243fc20532cb1b5
Peek is a free service offered by User Testing where you can get real people to test your websites usability.
I have to admit, first I didn’t really believe that there will be real person visiting my site and give my a feedback. But within in one hour I have been suprised.
Here’s the video done by a random guy from the internet:
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This post of is part of my Install SharePoint 2013 Three-tier Farm project.
By default SharePoint won’t user profiles of disabled accounts. To change that update the connection filter on the User Profile Sync service.
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By default in SharePoint 2013 there is no option for “Sign in as different user”.
To enable this option you have the update the SharePoint welcome template. Read More