Hi,
  I reopen this old thread since I'm having a similar problem.

I'm running ELOG V3.1.1-0767eb0 on ubuntu with webserver authentication, and I'd like to remove 'active' checkbox as well.

The problem that we found is that if any user click on the [Set None] button at the bottom of the Config page in order to unsubscribe from all mail notification, *all* the checkbox are toggled, not only those for the email notification. And this includes 
also the "active user" as well.
Moreover, if an user click directly on the "active user" checkbox, a warning dialog box appears, asking for confirmation, but this is not the case is [Set none] is pressed: so, in that case, a user deactivate itself without warning.

Looking at the web page as well as at the code, I did not find a possibility, but maybe someone knows better.

Thanks in advance,
  Stefano

> Hello,
> 
> Is it possible to remove the "active" checkbox a user sees when they click on "config"?  Alternatively, is it possible to have a new user arrive directly at the logbook they chose, rather than starting out at the config screen?
> 
> We are running elog-3.1.1 on SL6 with webserver authentication.  For the most part this works great, but somehow a few users become inactive after they login for the first time.  They claim they didn't un-check "active," but I can't think of any other 
way this would happen.
> 
> Many thanks,
> Devin