From 88bfeab1f79e1a2ba4f7a0272a4e2588eaebb517 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "bugreport%peshkin.net" <>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:47:07 +0000
Subject: bug 157756 - Groups_20020716_Branch Tracking : > 55 groups now
supported r=bbaetz, gerv
---
docs/en/xml/administration.xml | 64 ++++++++++++------------------------------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
(limited to 'docs/en')
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.
- If you wish to add more administrative users, you must use the
- MySQL interface. Run "mysql" from the command line, and use these
- commands:
-
-
- mysql>
- use bugs;
-
-
-
- mysql>
-
-
- update profiles set groupset=0x7ffffffffffffff where login_name =
- "(user's login name)";
-
-
-
+ 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.
-
- Yes, that is
- fourteen
-
- f
-
- 's. A whole lot of f-ing going on if you want to create a new
- administator.
@@ -698,10 +676,22 @@
- Fill out the "New Name", "New Description", and
- "New User RegExp" fields. "New User RegExp" allows you to automatically
+ 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".
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+ 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.
@@ -712,17 +702,6 @@
Turn on "usebuggroups" and "usebuggroupsentry" in the "Edit
Parameters" screen.
-
- 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.
-
@@ -734,13 +713,6 @@
-
- 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.
-
-
Note that group permissions are such that you need to be a member
of all the groups a bug is in, for whatever
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