Last modified: 2014-09-23 19:58:39 UTC
Extension request: The extension provides a Special page which can be used for users to request access to a privileged user group. It can only be used by emailconfirmed users (a nice message instead of 'permission denied' if it is not, would be preferable but not required) The user submits a form there to be "upgraded" (there could be an optional message), the extension stores a token to this request in memcached and fires an email -including the username and its email- to the gatekeeper, which manually checks the user email is in a secret approved list and if so, can follow a link provided in the email, and the user is automatically added to the cabal group. It would be nice if the user received an email on approval, too. Although I only need that for a single group, it would be nice if it was flexible enough to provide several groups (ie. you wouldn't need to copy the extension and modify it if you wanted one group for 'staff' and another for 'contractors').