[RESOLVED] Y'all aware that the Demo Administrator button 'hacked'

[AtomicBob]

Takes you to some inkjet refill site or somesuch. Not very useful.

[nathandiehl]

thanks. this happens all the time. that's what happens when you give someone backend admin control...
(in the meantime, it looks like someone fixed it)
i'm moving this thread to official site feedback.

thanks again for the heads-up.
nathan.

[AtomicBob]

Yes, i actually fixed it myself, i was suprised to find that I could figure it out - sorry for posting on a subject that must happen all the time, as you say. I should have known that. :-)

[brad]

FYI The demo site refreshes every 60 mins as well.

[Atomm]

I've been searching through the forums for a way to set up a secure Admin Demo. Almost every single post points out the site refreshes every 60 minutes and leaves it at that.

That really strikes me as a very insecure way of doing things. Can you elaborate more on how the demo site is set up and what measures have been taken to secure it. I think a lot of people would appreciate this info, myself included.

Thank you.

Atomm

[stingrey]

I've been searching through the forums for a way to set up a secure Admin Demo. Almost every single post points out the site refreshes every 60 minutes and leaves it at that.

This refers to the fact that the Database of demo.joomla.org is emptied and repopulated with sample data from a set script

That really strikes me as a very insecure way of doing things.

Why would it be insecure the user cannot access the filesystem, database or server directly and they cannot make any modifications to files via the backend

Can you elaborate more on how the demo site is set up and what measures have been taken to secure it. I think a lot of people would appreciate this info, myself included.

http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,67974.0.html