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 special pages. Second, the administrator associate 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.