Private:Create Accounts and Modify Permissions on NSL Servers

This page documents how to create users on various NSL servers. It also describes how to assign appropriate permissions to these users. You will need root/administrator privilege to perform most of the following operations.

MediaWiki

Our Media Wiki system (http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/wiki) grants anonymous users read permission on all pages except the ones in Private: namespace. However, our Wiki system does not allow anonymous users to create new account, nor to add/edit pages. To add a new user into our Wiki system, an administrator has to perform two operations. First, the administrator creates a new user account through Wiki's Web interface. Second, also through Web, the administrator associates this new user with user group nsl, which is granted with permission to add/edit pages including those ones in Private: namespace. Detailed steps are given in the following.

1. Click on the Special pages link at the lower right corner of any Wiki page.
   File:Wiki step1.jpg
2. Click on the option Login/Create Account. Notice that, you have to log in as an administrator before doing this.
   File:Wiki step2.jpg
3. Click on the Create an Account link.
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4. Fill out all required info and click on Create Account. You will need to memorize the account name for the new user, which will be used later.
   File:Wiki step4.jpg
5. Click on the Special pages link again. Click the User Right Management link at the bottom of that page.
   File:Wiki step5.jpg
6. Type the new user name in the text field. Then click on the Edit User Groups button.
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7. Highlight nsl in Available Groups and click on Save User Groups. Notice that, in the screenshot Bots is highlighted but the required one is nsl.
   File:Wiki step7.jpg

Bugzilla

Our Bugzilla installation (http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/bug) is an open system, where anonymous users can create user accounts upon replaying a confirmation email.