Torrent Suite SoftwareAdministration Guide

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Administration Guide TOC

Configure Users

The Users dialog provides for creating or modifying user accounts to access Torrent Suite Software using the Torrent Browser:

Add a User

1. Click Add on the Site administration menu for Users .
   
   

2. Enter a Username and Password ; enter the password twice to confirm:

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   If the user already exists or the password is invalid, you will be prompted to enter the correct information before continuing.

   
   
   
   
   

3. Click the wanted save option. Clicking Save permits you to provide additional user information using the Change user dialog, as follows.
   
   
4. In the Personal info dialog, optionally, enter a First name , Last name and E-mail address :
   
   
   
   
   
   

5. (Optional) In the Permissions dialog, check the Active , Staff status and Superuser status checkbox(es), as needed, and select the wanted User permissions :
   
   
   
   
   
   

   Checkbox	Description
   Active	Designates whether or not this user is treated as active. The recommended method is to uncheck this item rather than delete this account.
   Staff status	Designates whether or not this user can login to this administration site.
   Superuser status	Designates that this user has all permissions without explicitly assigning them.

   
   
   Select User permissions
   
   There are three ways to specify User permissions :
   
   

   1. Enter a string in the search window. All permissions matching the string are displayed, from which you may select permissions by highlighting the permission(s) and clicking the right arrow, in the center.
   2. Scroll through the permissions list. Highlight the wanted permission and click the right arrow to select the highlighted permission. Also hold down the control key to select more than one permission.
   3. Click Choose all at the bottom of the dialog, to highlight all available permissions, and click the right arrow to select all permissions.
      
      
      
      To deselect any permission, highlight selected permission(s), in the right window, or click Clear all followed by clicking the left arrow.
      
      
6. (Optional) Set the Last login and Date joined times, manually or using the calendar and clock icons. Click Today and Now to set the values to the current date and time:
   
   
   
   
   
   
7. (Optional) Click the plus sign to display the Add group dialog.
   
   
   
   
   
   
8. (Optional)Currently, the Add group dialog is the same as the User permissions dialog in step 5, above. Add the user to the group in the same way as described in step 5.
   
   
9. Choose one of the following Save options to complete adding the new user.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

• • Save and add another Choose this option to complete adding the new user, and return to the Add user page to another user.
  • Save and continue editing Choose this option to complete adding the new user, and return to the Change user page.
  • Save Choose this option to complete adding the new user. Clicking Save takes youto the Select user to change page.

Modify a User Entry

Use the following procedure to modify the information and permissions for an existing user:

1. On the Users line of the main Site administration menu, click Change .
   
   
2. On the Select user to change page, click the Username of the user you want to change.
   
   
   
   Usernames can be filtered, selected to the right, according to: By staff status , By superuser status or By active status.
   
   
   
   
   
   

3. Use the Change user dialog to modify user information in the same way as described for adding a user, beginning in step 4 above.
   
   

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   To be able to login to the server, it is important that you remember to check the Staff status checkbox in the Permissions dialog, shown in the following figure.

   
   
   
   
   

4. Choose one of the Save options at the bottom of the page to save your changes.

Delete a User Entry

Use one of the following procedures to delete an existing user.

Delete a Single User

1. In the Users line of the main Site administration menu, click Change .
   
   
2. On the Select user to change page, click the Username of the user to be deleted.
   
   
3. At the bottom-left of the user information page, click Delete .
   
   
4. Confirm that you want to delete the user by clicking Yes, I'm sure :
   
   
   
   

Delete Multiple Users

1. In the Users line of the main Site administration menu, click Change .
2. On the Select user to change page, check the checkbox for each of the users you want to delete.
3. Click the drop-down menu and select Delete selected users :
   
   
   
   
4. Click Go :
   
   
   
   
5. Confirm the list of users you want to delete by clicking Yes, I'm sure .
6. On the Select user to change page, the list of users confirms your deletion(s).