Re: [Bodington-developers] Creating users/change password? (for FAQs)

[Paul T. <pau...@co...>]

At 14:13 12/05/2005, Colin Tatham wrote:
>1. Do all usernames still require some kind of prefix? I think Antony did
>some work at Oxford to remove the requirement of having the campus prefix...

The prefix reflects zones, which I've never fully understood, but actually 
there is no constraint in the database itself.  It is only implemented in 
the Web interface in the User creation tool and Antony commented out the 
lines that imposed it.

I recall that the Yorkshire FE colleges Bodington each have their own zone, 
for which usernames are created with prefixes of the form <zone>.  Useful 
there to avoid confusion between their members.

A default setup has two zones - sys and admin, the latter is meant only for 
sys admin accounts (I think).  The other is campus.

Within
http://<bod_host>/bodington/site/admin/ground/
there should be links to these zones.  Create standard accounts in the 
Campus zone, rather than the Sys zone.

- Paul