<tip>
<para>If you wish to add more administrative users, add them to
- the "admin" group and, optionally, add edit the tweakparams, editusers,
+ the "admin" group and, optionally, edit the tweakparams, editusers,
creategroups, editcomponents, and editkeywords groups to add the
- entire admin group to those groups.
+ entire admin group to those groups (which is the case by default).
</para>
</tip>
</section>
<section id="manageusers">
<title>Managing Other Users</title>
+ <section id="user-account-search">
+ <title>Searching for existing users</title>
+
+ <para>
+ If you have <quote>editusers</quote> privileges or if you are allowed
+ to grant privileges for some groups, the <quote>Users</quote> link
+ appears in the footer.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The first screen you get is a search form to search for existing user
+ accounts. You can run searches based either on the ID, real name or
+ login name (i.e. the email address in most cases) of users. You can
+ search in different ways the listbox to the right of the text entry
+ box. You can match by case-insensitive substring (the default),
+ regular expression, or a <emphasis>reverse</emphasis> regular expression
+ match, which finds every user name which does NOT match the regular
+ expression.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ You can also restrict your search to users being in some specific group.
+ By default, the restriction is turned off. Then you get a list of
+ users matching your critera, and clicking their login name lets you
+ edit their properties.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
<section id="createnewusers">
<title>Creating new users</title>
- <para>Your users can create their own user accounts by clicking the
- "New Account" link at the bottom of each page (assuming they
- aren't logged in as someone else already.) However, should you
- desire to create user accounts ahead of time, here is how you do
- it.</para>
+ <section id="self-registration">
+ <title>Self-registration</title>
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>After logging in, click the "Users" link at the footer of
- the query page, and then click "Add a new user".</para>
- </listitem>
+ <para>
+ By default, users can create their own user accounts by clicking the
+ <quote>New Account</quote> link at the bottom of each page (assuming
+ they aren't logged in as someone else already). If you want to disable
+ this self-registration, or if you want to restrict who can create his
+ own user account, you have to edit the <quote>createemailregexp</quote>
+ parameter in the <quote>Configuration</quote> page, see
+ <xref linkend="parameters" />.
+ </para>
+ </section>
- <listitem>
- <para>Fill out the form presented. This page is self-explanatory.
- When done, click "Submit".</para>
+ <section id="user-account-creation">
+ <title>Accounts created by an administrator</title>
- <note>
- <para>Adding a user this way will
- <emphasis>not</emphasis>
-
- send an email informing them of their username and password.
- While useful for creating dummy accounts (watchers which
- shuttle mail to another system, for instance, or email
- addresses which are a mailing list), in general it is
- preferable to log out and use the
- <quote>New Account</quote>
-
- button to create users, as it will pre-populate all the
- required fields and also notify the user of her account name
- and password.</para>
- </note>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
+ <para>
+ Users with <quote>editusers</quote> privileges, such as administrators,
+ can create user accounts for other users:
+ </para>
+
+ <orderedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>After logging in, click the "Users" link at the footer of
+ the query page, and then click "Add a new user".</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Fill out the form presented. This page is self-explanatory.
+ When done, click "Submit".</para>
+
+ <note>
+ <para>Adding a user this way will <emphasis>not</emphasis>
+ send an email informing them of their username and password.
+ While useful for creating dummy accounts (watchers which
+ shuttle mail to another system, for instance, or email
+ addresses which are a mailing list), in general it is
+ preferable to log out and use the <quote>New Account</quote>
+ button to create users, as it will pre-populate all the
+ required fields and also notify the user of her account name
+ and password.</para>
+ </note>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+ </section>
</section>
<section id="modifyusers">
<title>Modifying Users</title>
- <para>To see a specific user, search for their login name
- in the box provided on the "Edit Users" page. To see all users,
- leave the box blank.</para>
-
- <para>You can search in different ways the listbox to the right
- of the text entry box. You can match by
- case-insensitive substring (the default),
- regular expression, or a
- <emphasis>reverse</emphasis>
- regular expression match, which finds every user name which does NOT
- match the regular expression. (Please see
- the <command>man regexp</command>
- manual page for details on regular expression syntax.)
- </para>
-
<para>Once you have found your user, you can change the following
fields:</para>
<para>
<emphasis>Login Name</emphasis>:
This is generally the user's full email address. However, if you
- have are using the emailsuffix Param, this may just be the user's
- login name. Note that users can now change their login names
- themselves (to any valid email address.)
+ have are using the <quote>emailsuffix</quote> parameter, this may
+ just be the user's login name. Note that users can now change their
+ login names themselves (to any valid email address).
</para>
</listitem>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
+
+ <section id="user-account-deletion">
+ <para>
+ If the <quote>allowuserdeletion</quote> parameter is turned on, see
+ <xref linkend="parameters" />, then you can also delete user accounts.
+ Note that this is most of the time not the best thing to do. If only
+ a warning in a yellow box is displayed, then the deletion is safe.
+ If a warning is also displayed in a red box, then you should NOT try
+ to delete the user account, else you will get referential integrity
+ problems in your database, which can lead to unexpected behavior,
+ such as bugs not appearing in bug lists anymore, or data displaying
+ incorrectly. You have been warned!
+ </para>
+ </section>
</section>
</section>
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