self_account_creation.md

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Student > Courses & Profile	Self Account Creation

Enable Self Account Creation

There are two steps to enable self account creation, Firstly you have to manually edit the submitty.json configuration file. The default location for this file is /usr/local/submitty/config/submitty.json. By default, self_account_creation_allowed is set to false. To enable it, change this to true. Secondly, you have to be using DatabaseAuthentication. To change authentication types, either re-run CONFIGURE_SUBMITTY.py or edit /usr/local/submitty/config/authentication.json and change the authentication method to any of the methods. You should be able to leave all other settings to the default. Warning This will disallow all users who are not in the database from being able to login, so this should only be used if you are only using database authentication.

Email and User ID Requirements

Below are the current accepted requirements for user_ids.

• If all is set to true, then length parameters are the only parameters checked.

• If require_name is true, then the user_id must start with and contain a certain amount of characters from the given name and/or family name.

• If the user does not have the character amount for the given part of the name, then !add fix!

• given_first determines whether the given name or family name must come first. (e.g. Test User -> userte vs teuser)

"user_id_requirements": {
    "all": true,
    "require_name": false,
    "min_length": 6,
    "max_length": 25,
    "name_requirements": {
      "given_first": false,
      "given_name": 2,
      "family_name": 4
    },
    "require_email": false,
    "email_requirements": {
      "whole_email": false,
      "whole_prefix": false,
      "prefix_count": 6
    }
}

"accepted_emails": {
    "gmail.com": true,
    "rpi.edu": true
}