[LON-CAPA-admin] Confirm self creation of user accounts

[Stefan Bisitz]

Hi Stuart,

It is probably not the usual case to allow self creating of user 
accounts without a reliable authentication mechanism, e.g. LDAP, as used 
for our production server. It's working fine there and saves a lot of 
manual work.

Our special server is meant for demonstration purposes and installed as 
standalone. We like to keep track of which users exist while new users 
should have an easy way to get access. In this case, using the helpdesk 
form should work as we don't expect huge masses.

Thanks for the quick reply, ideas and the enhancement request.

Stefan Bisitz


Am 06.03.2013 19:38 schrieb Stuart Raeburn:
> Hi,
>
>> Isn't it possible to put account creation requests in a queue to be
>> confirmed by the Domain Coordinator instead of a direct creation? I
>> thought it is but I cannot find any setting in the domain configuration.
>
> In 2.10.1, if self creation of a LON-CAPA user account with e-mail
> address as username is enabled for a domain, there is no facility to
> queue the request for approval by a Domain Coordinator. (Although other
> things - i.e., course creation requests, and course enrollment requests
> can be queued, pending approval).
>
> The original implementation of self-creation of accounts was primarily
> intended for institutions which support institutional authentication
> (e.g., LDAP/Kerberos or SSO). In such circumstances users from a domain
> without an existing LON-CAPA account log-in with their institutional
> username/password, and if authenticated, can have an account created
> automatically.
>
>> Any chance?
>
> I filed an enhancement request:
> http://bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6646
> and added you as a CC.
>
> Once the functionality is in place to queue new account requests,
> pending approval by a DC, the question then becomes what criteria does
> the Domain Coordinator use to make the decision to approve/reject the
> request - given that all that has possibly been provided is an e-mail
> address.
>
>> If not, any other (simple) way how to allow self creation of accounts
>> but with confirmation?
>
> LON-CAPA's "Contact Helpdesk" web form could be completed by someone
> needing an account to send a message to the domain's helpdesk to ask for
> an account to be created (the person's e-mail address is required when
> completing the web form).
>
>
> Stuart Raeburn
> LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
>
>
> Quoting Stefan Bisitz <st.bisitz at ostfalia.de>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a LON-CAPA server which allows account creation by self creation
>> using an e-mail address. The server is running the current official
>> production release 2.10.1.
>>
>> Isn't it possible to put account creation requests in a queue to be
>> confirmed by the Domain Coordinator instead of a direct creation? I
>> thought it is but I cannot find any setting in the domain configuration.
>>
>> Any chance?
>>
>> If not, any other (simple) way how to allow self creation of accounts
>> but with confirmation?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Stefan Bisitz
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