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diff --git a/docs/xml/administration.xml b/docs/xml/administration.xml index e9d48804e..f27ca462c 100644 --- a/docs/xml/administration.xml +++ b/docs/xml/administration.xml @@ -339,9 +339,9 @@ <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> @@ -349,62 +349,88 @@ <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, a <emphasis>reverse</emphasis> regular expression + match, which finds every user name which does NOT match the regular + expression, or the exact string if you know exactly who you are looking for. + </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> @@ -413,9 +439,9 @@ <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> @@ -436,6 +462,15 @@ <listitem> <para> + <emphasis>Bugmail Disabled</emphasis>: + Mark this checkbox to disable bugmail and whinemail completely + for this account. This checkbox replaces the data/nomail file + which existed in older versions of Bugzilla. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> <emphasis>Disable Text</emphasis>: If you type anything in this box, including just a space, the user is prevented from logging in, or making any changes to @@ -449,8 +484,8 @@ mail from Bugzilla; furthermore, they will not be able to log in themselves to change their own preferences and stop it. If you want an account (disabled or active) to - stop receiving mail, add the account name (one account - per line) to the file <filename>data/nomail</filename>. + stop receiving mail, simply check the + <quote>Bugmail Disabled</quote> checkbox above. </para> <note> <para> @@ -548,7 +583,21 @@ </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 id="impersonatingusers"> <title>Impersonating Users</title> |