Kunena/Kunena-2.0 — Issue #276: Administrator to manage (edit/change) another user's data
Author: sozzled
Created: 2012-01-01 19:03:01+00:00
State: open

This item for K 3.0.

Discussion refers: http://www.kunena.org/forum/159-k-16-and-k-17-common-questions/114487-setting-user-avatars-as-administrator-can-i

Key points: Kunena for corporate intranets. May be desirable in certain circumstances for site administrator to prevent users uploading their own avatar or changing the avatar assigned to users. May also be undesirable, in some cases, for users to change other personal information. The feature should be available to site administrator at frontend.

Possible consideration (for discussion): Configuration setting "User profiles managed by" with three possible values:

(1) If "Users only" then users are responsible for their own data (via frontend). Admins still can remove data (via backend) or accounts (via frontend) that do not conform to site policy.
(2) If "Administrators only" then users have no control over their own data. Admins have to manage everything (via frontend). This is probably more appropriate in "locked-down" SOEs (like corporate intranets).
(3) If "Users and Administrators" then users can manage/change their own data, and administrators can manage/change another user's data via frontend.