nextcloud / nextcloud/impersonate
Transparency controls: Require “Reason: __________” comment by admin when using impersonate
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enhancement
- Dominant language
- PHP
- Stars
- 70
- Forks
- 18
- Avg merge
- 5d 19h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 25
Description
Splitting up the sub-requests per @j-ed suggestion.
Enhancement: Require admins to enter a short reason why they are the impersonating the user. This reason would be able to be called back for things like activity log, notification (to users and others interested) and email alert to user.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing the admin impersonation flow in the impersonate repository and identify where the action begins and where activity logs, notifications, and email alerts are handled. The work is done when an admin must provide a short reason and that reason can be retrieved for each listed transparency use.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- php
- Domain
- authorization, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100