Adding Users
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SiT! Manual | Administrators Guide → Adding Users | Chapter 4 |
If you have appropriate permission you can create additional SiT users. (The 'admin' user always has this permission). Go to Control Panel | Users | Add User.
Usernames must be unique and cannot contain spaces. Each user must have an email address.
There are three available roles
- Administrator
- Manager
- User
Each role has different permissions, and you can alter the permissions assigned to roles should you require.
After adding a user you are presented with the user permissions page where you can grant additional permissions should the user have needs beyond that provided by the nearest role.
Note that permissions are additive and you cannot take permissions away from a user that are granted by the role except by changing the users role or altering the permissions on the role itself.
[edit] Passwords
For security passwords within SiT! are stored using the MD5 hash of the password, thus a password of "sitracker" would be stored as "33b6c98cab25a503bc909a787a4c0953" within the users table.
Should you wish to create users by hand (or part of a bulk process) with blank passwords then you need to use the MD5 of an empty string ("") which is "d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e" (this can also be used to audit users passwords for security). Usage of a blank password is discouraged for obvious security reasons, a preferable option would be to use a known string for new accounts passwords such as their surname, date of birth etc.
