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#10050 Some Feature Requests

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 05 October 2011 04:05 CDT

Spark
Hi Nicholas,

I have some feature requests / ideas for Admin Tools Pro:

1) It would be handy to have an option to not send an e-mail if the login was made with a white listed IP. Else I'll get a lot of false positives:
- Email this address on successful back-end login
- Email this address on failed administrator login

2) A save button for Configure WAF, next to save & close.

3) Option to use site e-mail for "Email this address on ....". Would be handy to use for my 'template' install. Then I don't have to fill in the fields for every client. But it's a tiny thing offcourse.

Best regards,
Juul

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Hi Julian,

1. Imagine this scenario: someone sneaks in to your office while you're away and uses your computer to log in to your site. As things are right now, you receive an email notifying you that someone logged in. With a feature like what you requested, it will simply not notify you. I will just say that you can never be too paranoid ;)

2. That, I can do.

3. Not only that would be a very big change, it's a pointless one too. The site's email address should ideally be a no-reply address. You don't want spambots registering themselves as users, finding out your email address from the automatic reply email and unleashing a torrent of spam upon you. Humans, on the other hand, should they need to contact you can always find the Contact Us page on your site. In fact, they can figure out how to contact you even when it's seriously harder than googling the solution to their problem or when the solution is included in the documentation they swear they read "thoroughly" before contacting you. That last bit comes from personal experience ;)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Spark
Ni Nicholas,

1 At my situation it would be very unlikely someone would try to hack my website if (s)he breaks into my house. If they do that they'll do it for the TV, money, ... (not that I'm that rich ;)). And there is nearly always anybody (I can trust) at home. I won't let people which I don't trust alone at my home.

If you have any chance of implementing it, it would be nice. Else no offence and I'll probably turn off the succesfull login and enjoy the other awesome features :)

2 Nice :)

3 Ok, thanks for the explanation. Totally agree :)

Regards,
Jurian

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
1. Think the whole picture. Admin Tools is meant to be used by a lot of different people, with different needs. The kind of change you ask is something which can prove potentially dangerous. Most people would turn it on, even those who could suffer an incident like the one I presented. I prefer to err on the side of caution. After all, I too get such emails whenever I login to my site. Not a big deal.

2. :)

3. You're welcome :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Spark
1. You're right, I get your point of view. It's not clever to implement it.

Keep up the good work, appreciate it :)

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
I have added the Save button in the WAF page in the latest developer's release of Admin Tools. You can check it out and tell me if that works for you too. Well, I can't see why it shouldn't be working, but having yet another confirmation of the working status of a patch is always welcome :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Spark
Hi Nicholas,

That's quick!
Just installed it on testserver and it works, thanks :)

Dutch translations looks also ok. FYI the yes/no is not translated (Dutch ja/nee). But that's not a big deal offcourse, okay for me.

Btw it's working really nice. Blocked already some bad user agents and a /administrator login attempt in one day.

Best regards,
Jurian

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
You're welcome :)

The Yes/No labels seem to be a bug (using the Joomla! 1.5 lang string in 1.7), already reported by the Dutch translator. I will take a look into them in a few hours.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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