Users - pausing and user overview

[Peter Knight]

There's no way to temporarily pause a users login access.

You can uncheck their roles and hit save. If you have many roles, you have to remember what they had access to if you need to re-admit them.

Would it be useful to have a "pause access" checkbox for a user ?

Also, on the User Overview a new column titled "Status" could be nice. Gives an overview of wether someone is paused, activated etc

Edit - I think I can configure Lister to display a users status

[DaveP]

Not a proper solution, but you could just change the username temporarily, or add 'xxx' or something to it.

[Wanze]

Another approach: You could add a checkbox "inactive" to the users template. Then hook after login and if this checkbox is checked, return false.

[Peter Knight]

Not a proper solution, but you could just change the username temporarily, or add 'xxx' or something to it.

Personally, I like that idea

Client wouldn't like this as a solution but as a short term fix it'll work for some of my more personal projects.

[Martijn Geerts]

With the API you could unpublish a user. Unpublished users can't login.

[Pete]

I was going to say same as Martin - unpublish them in the page tree would be easiest. A quick module could add similar functionality to the normal user profile page for superusers maybe as I don't think you can do it there (can't check quickly as on mobile).

[Soma]

As far as I know you can't unpublish user in admin.

[renobird]

I've been using the checkbox method and a simple hook for a while. Works quite well.

[teppo]

One more solution: https://github.com/teppokoivula/LoginScheduler. This has been on my todo list for a while, this topic just gave me a reason to put it together. Should work, but not 100% guaranteed

[renobird]

Sweet — nice one Teppo!