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diff --git a/docs/en/xml/administration.xml b/docs/en/xml/administration.xml index a82a659bf..a0ff3e174 100644 --- a/docs/en/xml/administration.xml +++ b/docs/en/xml/administration.xml @@ -212,33 +212,11 @@ you for this username and password.</para> <tip> - <para>If you wish to add more administrative users, you must use the - MySQL interface. Run "mysql" from the command line, and use these - commands: - <simplelist> - <member> - <prompt>mysql></prompt> - <command>use bugs;</command> - </member> - - <member> - <prompt>mysql></prompt> - - <command> - update profiles set groupset=0x7ffffffffffffff where login_name = - "(user's login name)"; - </command> - </member> - </simplelist> + <para>If you wish to add more administrative users, add them to + the "admin" group and, optionally, add edit the tweakparams, editusers, + creategroups, editcomponents, and editkeywords groups to add the + entire admin group to those groups. </para> - - <para>Yes, that is - <emphasis>fourteen</emphasis> - - <quote>f</quote> - - 's. A whole lot of f-ing going on if you want to create a new - administator.</para> </tip> </section> @@ -698,10 +676,22 @@ </listitem> <listitem> - <para>Fill out the "New Name", "New Description", and - "New User RegExp" fields. "New User RegExp" allows you to automatically + <para>Fill out the "Group", "Description", and + "User RegExp" fields. "New User RegExp" allows you to automatically place all users who fulfill the Regular Expression into the new group. When you have finished, click "Add".</para> + <warning> + <para>The User Regexp is a perl regexp and, if not anchored, will match + any part of an address. So, if you do not want to grant access + into 'mycompany.com' to 'badperson@mycompany.com.hacker.net', use + '@mycompany\.com$' as the regexp.</para> + </warning> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>After you add your new group, edit the new group. On the + edit page, you can specify other groups that should be included + in this group and which groups should be permitted to add and delete + users from this group.</para> </listitem> </orderedlist> @@ -712,17 +702,6 @@ <para>Turn on "usebuggroups" and "usebuggroupsentry" in the "Edit Parameters" screen.</para> - <warning> - <para>XXX is this still true? - "usebuggroupsentry" has the capacity to prevent the - administrative user from directly altering bugs because of - conflicting group permissions. If you plan on using - "usebuggroupsentry", you should plan on restricting - administrative account usage to administrative duties only. In - other words, manage bugs with an unpriveleged user account, and - manage users, groups, Products, etc. with the administrative - account.</para> - </warning> </listitem> <listitem> @@ -734,13 +713,6 @@ </listitem> </orderedlist> - <warning> - <para>Bugzilla currently has a limit of 64 groups per installation. If - you have more than about 50 products, you should consider - running multiple Bugzillas. Ask in the newsgroup for other - suggestions for working around this restriction.</para> - </warning> - <para> Note that group permissions are such that you need to be a member of <emphasis>all</emphasis> the groups a bug is in, for whatever |