General help

in my seetings "allow" is not ticked and yet my students still see the "security keys" with the token link in navigation.

 

I wanted to answer: also check the settings for Authenticated User.

But i've just done that in my Moodle 2.0.3 installation, and I find that it's set to 'Not set'.

So: it is indeed an interesting question: which setting do you have to turn off to remove this option from student's Settingsmenu?

Hi Keith,

Apologies as this is quite a technical answer..

It appears that page has mixed uses - one is for web services (controlled by the capability suggested above). The other is for 'secure RSS feeds', which I suspect is why you can see this (it is displayed when RSS feeds are enabled).

Secure RSS feeds is a feature added to Moodle 2.0 which allows users to have a RSS feed with a 'secret url'. It was developed by a summer of code student and the project was discussed in this thread. The idea is that the URL is not guessable and can be used as a primitive way of ensuring only the person who's URL it is can access the feed. (The reason to do this rather than ask for a usernames and password is because many RSS readers such as google reader do not support using a username and password to access RSS feeds).

This token which you are seeing is a 'secret' token (thinks of it as a password for the RSS feed) which can be used to access the private RSS feeds. It is displayed here in order to allow you to rest the token (or 'password') if you believe someone may have found your secure RSS feed url for example.

It appears as though there is not a capability to disable access to this page, although it will not be displayed if RSS feeds are disabled.

thanks,
dan