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>4.2. User Administration</A
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> User administration is one of the easiest parts of Bugzilla.
Keeping it from getting out of hand, however, can become a
challenge.
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><A
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>4.2.1. Creating the Default User</A
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> When you first run checksetup.pl after installing Bugzilla, it
will prompt you for the administrative username (email
address) and password for this "super user". If for some
reason you were to delete the "super user" account, re-running
checksetup.pl will again prompt you for this username and
password.
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> 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>" denotes the mysql prompt, not
something you should type in):
<B
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> use bugs;</B
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<B
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>mysql></TT
> update profiles set
groupset=0x7ffffffffffffff where login_name = "(user's
login name)"; </B
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><P
>Yes, that is <EM
>fourteen</EM
>
<SPAN
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>"f"</SPAN
>'s. A whole lot of f-ing going on if you
want to create a new administator.</P
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>4.2.2. Managing Other Users</A
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> Open the index.html page for your Bugzilla installation
in your browser window.
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> Click the "Query Existing Bug Reports" link.
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> Click the "Log In" link at the foot of the page.
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> Type your email address, and the password which was
emailed to you when you created your Bugzilla account,
into the spaces provided.
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>Congratulations, you are logged in!</P
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><A
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>4.2.2.2. Creating new users</A
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><P
> Your users can create their own user accounts by clicking
the "New Account" link at the bottom of each page. However,
should you desire to create user accounts ahead of time,
here is how you do it.
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><P
> After logging in, click the "Users" link at the footer
of the query page.
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><LI
><P
> To see a specific user, type a portion of their login
name in the box provided and click "submit". To see all
users, simply click the "submit" button. You must click
"submit" here to be able to add a new user.
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> More functionality is available via the list on the
right-hand side of the text entry box. You can match
what you type as a case-insensitive substring (the
default) of all users on your system, a case-sensitive
regular expression (please see the <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>man
regexp</B
> manual page for details on regular
expression syntax), or a <EM
>reverse</EM
>
regular expression match, where every user name which
does NOT match the regular expression is selected.
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> Click the "Add New User" link at the bottom of the user
list
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> Fill out the form presented. This page is
self-explanatory. When done, click "submit".
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> Adding a user this way will <EM
>not</EM
>
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 <SPAN
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>"New Account"</SPAN
> button to create users,
as it will pre-populate all the required fields and
also notify the user of her account name and
password.
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>4.2.2.3. Disabling Users</A
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><P
> I bet you noticed that big "Disabled Text" entry box
available from the "Add New User" screen, when you edit an
account? By entering any text in this box and selecting
"submit", you have prevented the user from using Bugzilla
via the web interface. Your explanation, written in this
text box, will be presented to the user the next time she
attempts to use the system.
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> Don't disable your own administrative account, or you
will hate life!
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>At this time, <SPAN
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>"Disabled Text"</SPAN
> does not
prevent a user from using the email interface. If you
have the email interface enabled, they can still
continue to submit bugs and comments that way. We need
a patch to fix this.</P
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>4.2.2.4. Modifying Users</A
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><P
> Here I will attempt to describe the function of each option
on the Edit User screen.
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> <EM
>Login Name</EM
>: This is generally the
user's email address. However, if you have edited your
system parameters, this may just be the user's login
name or some other identifier.
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> For compatability reasons, you should probably stick
with email addresses as user login names. It will
make your life easier.
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><LI
><P
> <EM
>Real Name</EM
>: Duh!
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><LI
><P
> <EM
>Password</EM
>: You can change the user
password here. It is normal to only see asterisks.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> <EM
>Email Notification</EM
>: You may choose
from one of three options:
<P
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><LI
><P
> All qualifying bugs except those which I change:
The user will be notified of any change to any bug
for which she is the reporter, assignee, QA
Contact, CC recipient, or "watcher".
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Only those bugs which I am listed on the CC line:
The user will not be notified of changes to bugs
where she is the assignee, reporter, or QA
Contact, but will receive them if she is on the CC
list.
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> She will still receive whining cron emails if
you set up the "whinemail" feature.
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</P
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><LI
><P
> <EM
>All Qualifying Bugs</EM
>: This
user is a glutton for punishment. If her name is
in the reporter, QA Contact, CC, assignee, or is a
"watcher", she will get email updates regarding
the bug.
</P
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><P
> <EM
>Disable Text</EM
>: If you type anything
in this box, including just a space, the user account is
disabled from making any changes to bugs via the web
interface, and what you type in this box is presented as
the reason.
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>Don't disable the administrator account!</P
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> As of this writing, the user can still submit bugs
via the e-mail gateway, if you set it up, despite
the disabled text field. The e-mail gateway should
<EM
>not</EM
> be enabled for secure
installations of Bugzilla.
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> <EM
>CanConfirm</EM
>: This field is only used
if you have enabled "unconfirmed" status in your
parameters screen. If you enable this for a user, that
user can then move bugs from "Unconfirmed" to
"Confirmed" status (e.g.: "New" status). Be judicious
about allowing users to turn this bit on for other
users.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> <EM
>Creategroups</EM
>: This option will
allow a user to create and destroy groups in Bugzilla.
Unless you are using the Bugzilla GroupSentry security
option "usebuggroupsentry" in your parameters, this
setting has no effect.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> <EM
>Editbugs</EM
>: Unless a user has this
bit set, they can only edit those bugs for which they
are the assignee or the reporter.
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> Leaving this option unchecked does not prevent users
from adding comments to a bug! They simply cannot
change a bug priority, severity, etc. unless they
are the assignee or reporter.
</P
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>
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> <EM
>Editcomponents</EM
>: This flag allows a
user to create new products and components, as well as
modify and destroy those that have no bugs associated
with them. If a product or component has bugs
associated with it, those bugs must be moved to a
different product or component before Bugzilla will
allow them to be destroyed. The name of a product or
component can be changed without affecting the
associated bugs, but it tends to annoy the hell out of
your users when these change a lot.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> <EM
>Editkeywords</EM
>: If you use Bugzilla's
keyword functionality, enabling this feature allows a
user can create and destroy keywords. As always, the
keywords for existing bugs containing the keyword the
user wishes to destroy must be changed before Bugzilla
will allow it to die. You must be very careful about
creating too many new keywords if you run a very large
Bugzilla installation; keywords are global variables
across products, and you can often run into a phenomenon
called "keyword bloat". This confuses users, and then
the feature goes unused.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> <EM
>Editusers</EM
>: This flag allows a user
do what you're doing right now: edit other users. This
will allow those with the right to do so to remove
administrator priveleges from other users or grant them
to themselves. Enable with care.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> <EM
>PRODUCT</EM
>: PRODUCT bugs access. This
allows an administrator, with product-level granularity,
to specify in which products a user can edit bugs. The
user must still have the "editbugs" privelege to edit
bugs in this area; this simply restricts them from even
seeing bugs outside these boundaries if the
administrator has enabled the group sentry parameter
"usebuggroupsentry". Unless you are using bug groups,
this option has no effect.
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