discourse/app/controllers/users
Régis Hanol bccf4e0b53
FIX: improve "read only" modes (#33521)
The reasons for these changes is https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/89605
broke and admins were not able to log back in if they had previously
enabled the "read only" mode.

Thus ensued a deep dive into how all the "read only" modes worked, which
was made difficult due to the lack of tests.

The "cornerstone" of this PR is the `read_only_mixin.rb` file which was
improved to be able to differentiate between the "readonly" mode and the
"staff writes only" mode.

I then made use of the `allow_in_readonly_mode` and
`allow_in_staff_writes_only_mode` method to **explicitely** list all the
actions that should work in those modes.

I also added the "readonly" mixin to the `WebhooksController` since it
doesn't inherit from the `ApplicationController`.

I improved the security of the `/u/admin-login` endpoint by always
sending the same message no matter if we found or not an admin account
with the provided email address.

I added two system specs:

1. for ensuring that admins can log in via /u/admin-lgoin and then
clicking the link in the email they received while the site is in
readonly mode.
2. for ensuring the "staff writes only mode" is _actually_ tested by
ensuring a moderator can log in and create a topic while the site is in
that mode.

Plenty of specs were updated to ensure 100% converage of the various
"read only" modes.
2025-07-10 09:08:00 +02:00
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associate_accounts_controller.rb DEV: Remove logical OR assignment of constants (#29201) 2024-10-16 10:09:07 +08:00
discourse_id_controller.rb DEV: Add Discourse ID authenticator (#33186) 2025-06-17 09:47:00 -04:00
omniauth_callbacks_controller.rb FIX: improve "read only" modes (#33521) 2025-07-10 09:08:00 +02:00