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| author | Gareth Rees <gareth@mysociety.org> | 2014-07-03 17:14:15 +0100 |
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| committer | Gareth Rees <gareth@mysociety.org> | 2014-07-03 17:14:15 +0100 |
| commit | dfaafc5e8847260f2e0708314840761e271a7856 (patch) | |
| tree | 185e19dbc78d9abcd087a633bb66d5b4520921c6 /docs/installing | |
| parent | a51742cfdc8fc6959c4dc2fec0ee379e1603d9c0 (diff) | |
| parent | d41e59dc1af1880e96a8f13b7efdcc9746aa36d8 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'gh-pages-admin' into gh-pages
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diff --git a/docs/installing/manual_install.md b/docs/installing/manual_install.md index bf2f9b7cd..8d6403b73 100644 --- a/docs/installing/manual_install.md +++ b/docs/installing/manual_install.md @@ -339,28 +339,6 @@ localhost interface by adding `--binding=127.0.0.1` The server should have told you the URL to access in your browser to see the site in action. -## Administrator privileges - -The administrative interface is at the URL `/admin`. - -Only users with the `super` admin level can access the admin interface. Users -create their own accounts in the usual way, and then administrators can give -them `super` privileges. - -There is an emergency user account which can be accessed via -`/admin?emergency=1`, using the credentials `ADMIN_USERNAME` and -`ADMIN_PASSWORD`, which are set in `general.yml`. To bootstrap the -first `super` level accounts, you will need to log in as the emergency -user. You can disable the emergency user account by setting `DISABLE_EMERGENCY_USER` to `true` in `general.yml`. - -Users with the superuser role also have extra privileges in the website -frontend, such as being able to categorise any request, being able to view -items that have been hidden from the search, and being presented with "admin" -links next to individual requests and comments in the front end. - -It is possible completely to override the administrator authentication by -setting `SKIP_ADMIN_AUTH` to `true` in `general.yml`. - ## Cron jobs and init scripts `config/crontab-example` contains the cronjobs run on WhatDoTheyKnow. It's in a |