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[Kristina Hoeppner <1546769@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1546769

Title:
  The 'None' auth needs to be locked down or removed to avoid troubles
  with multi institutions

Status in Mahara:
  Fix Committed
Status in Mahara 16.04 series:
  Fix Committed
Status in Mahara 16.10 series:
  Fix Committed
Status in Mahara 17.04 series:
  Fix Committed
Status in Mahara 17.10 series:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  When there are multiple institutions/tenants on a mahara and one of
  the tenants decides to add the 'None' auth method to their institution
  it causes havoc for users on all institutions as if they accidentally
  enter their login details wrong they get logged in to institution with
  'None' set as a new user rather than their normal institution/account.

  Things that need to be changed to avoid this problem:

  1) When an institution tries to add the 'None' auth option it needs to
  check to see if there are any other institutions present and only
  allow it if institution count = 1

  2) Conversely if the only institution uses 'None' auth then you
  shouldn't be allowed to add a new institution until that auth is
  removed

  3) And when you are able to add "None" you should probably get some
  prominent message with "Do you really want to do this? You know, it
  means that anybody will be able to log in without any authorization"

  Also as part of this change it would be very good to add a ctime (and
  maybe userid) field to the auth_instance table to record when one
  adds/edits auth details to see when things changed as this human error
  can cause big problems for users.

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