Drawback:

Joomla has one drawback, any web user can easily know the site is created in Joomla! by typing the URL to access the administration area (i.e. www.site name.com/administration). This makes hackers hack the site easily once they crack id and password for Joomla!.

Information:

jSecure Authentication module prevents access to administration (back end) login page without appropriate access key.

Installation steps:

1. Login to administration area
2. Go to Installer -> select the plgSystemJSecure.zip file.
3. Click on Install & upload.

Once the plugin is installed there are few manual steps which needs to be followed to make the plugin work:

1. Login to Administration area
2. Go To Plugins->System
3. Click on System - jSecure Authentication link
4. Enable the plugin and set the optional parameters specified below
5. Save the plugin.

Default key to access login page is "jSecure".

Note: The key is case sensitive and can **ONLY** contain alphanumeric values. PLEASE dont use numeric values

How to Use :

http://www.site name/administrator/?keyname

keyname: key name is the key specified in the jSecure Authentication module.

Set the Parameters:

jSecure Authentication module provides following parameters:

Key: This is secure key which will be used to grant access to administration area.

Redirect Options: This parameter specifies what action to take if the key does not match. There are two choices:

• Redirect to index page: Redirect unauthorized user back to home page
• Custom Path: Provide relative path to custom page, for example 404 page not found.

For More information http://joomlaserviceprovider.com
Thanks to the team (Ajay Lulia, Bhavin Shah, Kamlesh Rewapati) for Developing the module and plugin.
Thanks to Sam Moffatt for converting Joomla! 1.0 module to a Joomla! 1.5 system plugin.

License: This is free software and you may redistribute it under the GPL. jSecure comes with absolutely no warranty. Use at your own risk. For details, see the license at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt Other licenses can be found in LICENSES folder.

Change Log:

1.0: Initial Version 1.0.1:
Fix for J1.5 Native

1.0.2 (30-Aug-08):
Fix for J1.5 params (Thanks to Christer)

1.0.3 (15-Sep-08):
Fix for J1.5 call to admin login page using index2.php, please update your copy of jSecure Authentication.

1.0.4(26-Sep-08):
Fix for J1.5 to use proper custom tag and fixed a php error.

1.0.5(16-Oct-08):
Fixed redirection issue.

1.0.6(23-Dec-08):
Fixed security bug. Updated readme file.