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Add some changes to enable self account creation
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_docs/sysadmin/configuration/self_account_creation.md

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### Enable Self Account Creation
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Currently the only way to enable users to create their own accounts is to manually edit the submitty.json configuration file. The default location for this
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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`.
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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
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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,
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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.
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*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.
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### Email and User ID Requirements
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