Account mod

Create and manage accounts with cards.

Like everything else in Decko, accounts are encoded using cards. A high-level introduction to account handling in Decko is available at https://decko.org/account

Sets

name	important fields
[accounted card]+:account	:email, :password, :salt, and :status

Accounts themselves are stored in +:account cards. While it is most common (and best supported) for User cards to have accounts, it is possible for any card to have an account, if they include the Card::Set::Abstract::Accountable set. This can be useful for decks on which it is desirable to assign accounts to, for example, companies or robots, but it is not desirable to treat such entities as "users."

Because (in the wiki tradition) Decko attributes changes to community members who make them, it is typically important not to delete cards of former users, lest their changes be unattributed, creating confusing, misleading, or potentially even malicious gaps in the record.

However, it is possible to delete the account without deleting the accounted card. For example, if Malik is a user and wishes to have his account deleted, this can be achieved by deleting Malik+:account. The email and passwords associated with the account will be deleted, but Malik's name will remain in the system so that his edits can still be attributed.

A new default deck comes with the following two cards:

• Anonymous - Edits made by people who are not signed in are credited to Anonymous
• Decko Bot - A fully permissioned card to which many generic actions are attributed.

Account fields

All account fields include the Card::Set::Abstract::AccountField set, which makes content editable by the account owner

name	type	content
+:email	phrase	email string

Email cards are validated as valid email strings.

name	type	content
+:password	phrase	password string

Password cards are validated as valid password strings.

Other types

name	type	important fields
Role	Cardtype	:members (those with role)

Roles are tools for grouping accounted cards for the sake of assigning permissions. Each Role card can have a List of members.

The account mod comes with several built-in roles:

Two have implicit member handling:

• Anyone - Every accounted card automatically has this role. A permission given to Anyone is unrestricted.
• Anyone Signed In - Everyone signed in has this role

Another has implicit permission handling:

• Administrator - Can create, read, or update any card

And others have no special code attached to them, but they come with handy default settings:

• Eagle - typically used for content editors
• Shark - typically used for those editing rules, like structure, defaults, styling, etc.
• Help Desk - someone who can assign roles and edit user permissions.

name	codename	type	important fields
Sign Up	signup	Cardtype	:account
User	user	Cardtype	:account

When you sign up for Decko, you create a new Sign Up card. A successful signup is then converted into a User card (as in, its type changes from Sign Up to User.)

Permissions on these cards determines how accounts are created:

• If Anyone can create a Sign Up card, then anyone can sign up.
• If Anyone can create a User card, then users can verify their own accounts (via email)
• If NOT Anyone can create a User card, then accounts must be approved by an existing user who has the permission to create a User card.

Other special cards

• Signing in and out is performed using the :signin card. Signing in works by initiating an update action on the card, and signing out works by initiating a delete action. (In neither case is the :signin card actually altered; the action is aborted once the authentication takes place)

• The :account_settings card can be appended to any accounted card to provide UI for various account-related content.