Login automatically to anonymous user #10
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ar-jan
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Nov 15, 2023
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Works and looks good to me.
I do suppose we are making it easy to carry out a denial-of-service type attack, since it's possible to flood the database with anonymous user sessions. Unlikely to be an issue from regular use, but easy to do intentionally. Do we consider this acceptable?
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Create an index view which automatically logs in the user to a dedicated anonymous user. This user is created on the fly if it does not exists.
Contains adaptations to the login and logout templates, to allow the user to login as an anonymous user again without having to go to the index page manually.
Closes #8