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Diffstat (limited to 'docs/en/rst/administering')
-rw-r--r-- | docs/en/rst/administering/parameters.rst | 17 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | docs/en/rst/administering/users.rst | 14 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/docs/en/rst/administering/parameters.rst b/docs/en/rst/administering/parameters.rst index 0d2d18029..5835d654f 100644 --- a/docs/en/rst/administering/parameters.rst +++ b/docs/en/rst/administering/parameters.rst @@ -169,12 +169,6 @@ requirelogin If this option is set, all access to the system beyond the front page will require a login. No anonymous users will be permitted. -webservice_email_filter - Filter email addresses returned by the WebService API depending on if the - user is logged in or not. This works similarly to how the web UI currently - filters email addresses. If requirelogin is enabled, then this parameter - has no effect as users must be logged in to use Bugzilla anyway. - emailregexp Defines the regular expression used to validate email addresses used for login names. The default attempts to match fully qualified email addresses @@ -186,12 +180,6 @@ emailregexpdesc This description is shown to the user to explain which email addresses are allowed by the :param:`emailregexp` param. -emailsuffix - This is a string to append to any email addresses when actually sending mail - to that address. It is useful if you have changed the :param:`emailregexp` - param to only allow local usernames, but you want the mail to be delivered - to username\@my.local.hostname. - createemailregexp This defines the (case-insensitive) regexp to use for email addresses that are permitted to self-register. The default (:paramval:`.*`) permits any @@ -499,9 +487,8 @@ address. The LDAP authentication builds on top of this scheme, rather than replacing it. The initial log-in is done with a username and password for the LDAP directory. Bugzilla tries to bind to LDAP using those credentials and, if successful, tries to map this account to a -Bugzilla account. If an LDAP mail attribute is defined, the value of this -attribute is used; otherwise, the :param:`emailsuffix` parameter is appended to -the LDAP username to form a full email address. If an account for this address +Bugzilla account. An LDAP mail attribute must be defined. +If an account for this address already exists in the Bugzilla installation, it will log in to that account. If no account for that email address exists, one is created at the time of login. (In this case, Bugzilla will attempt to use the "displayName" diff --git a/docs/en/rst/administering/users.rst b/docs/en/rst/administering/users.rst index e32db2f05..7d5b33399 100644 --- a/docs/en/rst/administering/users.rst +++ b/docs/en/rst/administering/users.rst @@ -27,9 +27,7 @@ will appear in the Administration page. The first screen is a search form to search for existing user accounts. You can run searches based either on the user ID, real -name or login name (i.e. the email address, or just the first part -of the email address if the :param:`emailsuffix` parameter is set). -The search can be conducted +name, login name or email address. The search can be conducted in different ways using the listbox to the right of the text entry box. You can match by case-insensitive substring (the default), regular expression, a *reverse* regular expression @@ -55,13 +53,15 @@ Modifying Users Once you have found your user, you can change the following fields: -- *Login Name*: - This is generally the user's full email address. However, if you - have are using the :param:`emailsuffix` parameter, this may - just be the user's login name. Unless you turn off the +- *Email Address*: + This is the user's full email address. Unless you turn off the :param:`allowemailchange` parameter, users can change their login names themselves (to any valid email address). +- *Login Name*: + This is the user's login name, if it is (or can be) different from their email + address (i.e. if the "use_email_as_login" parameter is switched off). + - *Real Name*: The user's real name. Note that Bugzilla does not require this to create an account. |