Item11856: Create Configure settings screen

There is a need to change the password without making changes (password policy, hacker on the loose). At the same time there are more settings for working with configure that could be grouped in a separate screen:

• Displaying expert options: default on
• Accessing the configure logs
• And the change password

The screen can be accessed from the left menu - it could be the last shown item. It may not be visible when first using configure.

-- ArthurClemens - 12 May 2012

There are a couple of config constants that could possibly be included here:

• $SESSIONEXP = 3600;    # Lifetime of configure session
• $SAVEEXP    = 300;     # Lifetime of cached save password

I wonder if we could also set the list of allowed IP addresses, and allow configure security to be even more self contained, rather than requiring the apache settings.

And would it also make sense to add the default path for the extensions installer here, maybe as separate entry fields, so that it is easier to configure and understand. Nobody gets it right the first time.

$Foswiki::cfg{ExtensionsRepositories} = 'Foswiki.org=(http://foswiki.org/Extensions/,http://foswiki.org/pub/Extensions/)';

Name	Extensions Web	Pub URL	userid	password	Description
Foswiki.org	http://foswiki.org/Extensions/	http://foswiki.org/pub/Extensions/			Default repository
					Alternate repository

-- GeorgeClark - 13 May 2012

no longer relevant since the configure rewrite. No-action.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 20 Jan 2015

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