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author | Dries Buytaert <dries@buytaert.net> | 2003-08-13 18:40:26 +0000 |
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committer | Dries Buytaert <dries@buytaert.net> | 2003-08-13 18:40:26 +0000 |
commit | 6842d59732859beeb291e04bc433618bd586ce5b (patch) | |
tree | 9d213b236afa08e0d54f8100536db9e487405c41 /modules/user/user.module | |
parent | a078e515f6d1c23b1228a7112b18f5f0989ab7d7 (diff) | |
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- Documentation fixes by Michael F.
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diff --git a/modules/user/user.module b/modules/user/user.module index 6529b4c72..e8468ff3d 100644 --- a/modules/user/user.module +++ b/modules/user/user.module @@ -1732,7 +1732,7 @@ function user_help_admin() { $output .= "<p>Registered users need to authenticate by supplying either a local username and password, or a remote username and password such as a ". l("jabber", "www.jabber.org") .", ". l("Delphi", "www.delphiforums.com") .", or one from another ". l("Drupal", "www.drupal.org") ." website. See ". l("distributed authentication", "#da") ." for more information on this innovative feature."; $output .= "The local username and password, hashed with Message Digest 5 (MD5), are stored in your database. When you enter a password it is also hashed with MD5 and compaired with what is in the database. If the hashes match, the username and password are correct. Once a user authenticated session is started, and until that session is over, the user won't have to re-authenticate. To keep track of the individual sessions, Drupal relies on ". l("PHP's session support", "www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php") .". A visitor accessing your website is assigned an unique ID, the so-called session ID, which is stored in a cookie. For security's sake, the cookie does not contain personal information but acts as a key to retrieve the information stored on your server's side. When a visitor accesses your site, Drupal will check whether a specific session ID has been sent with the request. If this is the case, the prior saved environment is recreated.</p>"; $output .= "<h3>User preferences and profiles</h3><p>Each Drupal user has a profile, and a set of preferences which may be edited by clicking on the ". l("user account", "user") ." link. Of course, a user must be logged into reach those pages. There, users will find a page for changing their preferred time zone, language, username, e-mail address, password, theme, signature, homepage, and ". l("distributed authentication", "#da") ." names. Changes made here take effect immediately. Also, administrators may make profile and preferences changes in the ". l("Admin Center", "admin/user") ." on behalf of their users.</p>"; - $output .= "<p>Module developers are provided several hooks for adding custom fields to the user view/edit pages. These hooks are described in the Developer section of the ". l("Drupal Handbook", "drupal.org/node/view/316") .". For an example, see the <code>jabber_user()</code> function in <i>/modules/jabber.module</i>.</p>"; + $output .= "<p>Module developers are provided several hooks for adding custom fields to the user view/edit pages. These hooks are described in the Developer section of the ". l("Drupal documentation", "drupal.org/node/view/316") .". For an example, see the <code>jabber_user()</code> function in <i>/modules/jabber.module</i>.</p>"; return $output; } |