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authorDave Whiteland <dave@mysociety.org>2014-09-29 11:03:51 -0500
committerGareth Rees <gareth@mysociety.org>2014-11-06 17:12:46 +0000
commit5ce690b530772ec6dab0c9d12e3f0d3147f7973b (patch)
tree525c72284250eb9eb1c5ec4578fb81dc5a6aeb6a /docs/customising
parent47e9e966005b108206a49a5e50fae52823a70174 (diff)
cleanup of AMI and Next Steps documentation
Includes addition of the "emergency user" This is largely after following the instructions through on a clean AMI install and noticing all the pinnch-points where confusiion or even errors occurred. revisited on arrival in Mexico (after 2 weeks' holiday, so this got a bit behind)
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diff --git a/docs/customising/config.md b/docs/customising/config.md
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@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ indentation correct. If in doubt, look at the examples already in the file, and
<code><a href="#admin_username">ADMIN_USERNAME</a></code>
<br> <code><a href="#admin_password">ADMIN_PASSWORD</a></code>
-<br> <code><a href="#admin_username">DISABLE_EMERGENCY_USER</a></code>
+<br> <code><a href="#disable_emergency_user">DISABLE_EMERGENCY_USER</a></code>
<br> <code><a href="#skip_admin_auth">SKIP_ADMIN_AUTH</a></code>
### Email management:
@@ -499,10 +499,25 @@ THEME_URLS:
&amp;
<a name="admin_password"><code>ADMIN_PASSWORD</code></a>
<br>
- <a name="admin_username"><code>DISABLE_EMERGENCY_USER</code></a>
+ <a name="disable_emergency_user"><code>DISABLE_EMERGENCY_USER</code></a>
</dt>
<dd>
- The emergency user.
+ Details for the
+ <a href="{{site.baseurl}}docs/glossary/#emergency" class="glossary__link">emergency user</a>.
+ <p>
+ This is useful for creating the initial admin users for your site:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Create a new user (using regular sign up on the site)</li>
+ <li>Log in as the emergency user</li>
+ <li>Promote the new account</li>
+ <li>Disable the emergency user</li>
+ </ul>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ For details of this process, see
+ <a href="{{site.baseurl}}docs/installing/next_steps/#create-a-superuser-admin-account">creating
+ a superuser account</a>.
+ </p>
<div class="more-info">
<p>Examples:</p>
<ul class="examples">