Backtalk Administration Guide:
Creating User Accounts
Version 1.0.9
© 1996-1999 Jan Wolter, Steve Weiss
If your Backtalk system is set up so that users use use real Unix login ids
to log into Backtalk, then you won't be able to create accounts with
Backtalk. You should use the Unix command instead.
However, if you system is set up to only use Backtalk accounts,
then accounts can be created either with the web-based "makeacct"
program, or the Unix "btmkuser" command.
Just follow the following steps.
(The checkboxes below perform no function -
they are just for your convenience.)
Creating Accounts by using the makeacct Web Interface
The makeacct web interface can be installed in any of three ways:
- So anyone can run it and immediately create themselves a usable account.
- So anyone can run it, but the accounts it creates are not usable until
an conference adminstrator has validated
them.
- So only conference administrators can run it.
Whichever set-up you have, as a conference administrator, you can run the
program and, if necessary, validate the account.
The program is easy to use
(since it is meant to be usable by random users off the web),
so you really don't need instructions.
Creating Accounts by using btmkuser command from Unix
The btmkuser command can only be used from
the conference adminstrator account, not by random other people.
It creates minimal accounts, with only the login name, password and fullname
set, not with all the other stuff like gender and email addresses.
It's meant mainly as an aid to people who have to create accounts in large
batches and want to write shell scripts to do so.
Maybe we'll add more features if there is a demand.