Forum .LRN Q&A: How about a more user-friendly alternative to "Security Violation"?

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1: How about a more user-friendly alternative to "Security Violation"?
Posted by Bruce Spear on 10/21/03 03:04 PM
How about a more user-friendly alternative to "Security Violation" when my new users successfully register for my .lrn site?  We currently advise new users that "This incident has been logged" is just .lrn's way of saying "I love you and want to take you home," but I'm wondering if we might not find a way to change the text to something more informative and friendly -- as I've got a lot of people writing to me in confusion.

I've found this text in two places, buy my patches have had no effect:

./packages/acs-developer-support/tcl/acs-developer-support-procs.tcl
      <p>This incident has been logged.</p>
./packages/acs-tcl/tcl/acs-permissions-procs.tcl
  This incident has been logged.

I'll appreciate any suggestions of how I might better proceed!  Thanks!  Bruce

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2: Re: How about a more user-friendly alternative to &quot;Security Violation&quot;? (response to 1)
Posted by Jun Yamog on 10/22/03 05:04 AM
Hi Bruce,

You can try to grep for ad_return_forbidden and change the message they put out.

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3: Re: How about a more user-friendly alternative to &quot;Security Violation&quot;? (response to 1)
Posted by Raad Al-Rawi on 10/31/03 01:50 PM
Bruce

I think this happens because of the permissions set on the dotlrn site node. If you take a look, you are probably missing "read" access for "dotLRN Users" or possibly "Registered Users" (can't remember which!).

If you set the missing permission, then people who are newly registered will go to the "index-not-a-user" page under "packages/dotlrn/www/". You could amend this page to say something more meaningful like "You are not a member of any community/groups...".

Hope that helps.

<Raad>

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4: Re: How about a more user-friendly alternative to &quot;Security Violation&quot;? (response to 1)
Posted by Bruce Spear on 10/31/03 03:24 PM
Dear Jun and Raad:  Many thanks for the tips!  I've been swamped with other work, but now I have some time to check this stuff out.  MANY thanks!  Bruce
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5: Re: How about a more user-friendly alternative to &quot;Security Violation&quot;? (response to 1)
Posted by Bruce Spear on 11/12/03 05:43 PM
OK, this is my solution: I grep'd "Security Violation" and found the offending text in:

./packages/acs-tcl/tcl/acs-permissions-procs.tcl
"Security Violation" \

Which I then changed to something warm and fuzzy.

Thanks!