Module 2: Users and groups
Who may sign in, in which group, with which password, and what happens when someone leaves: this module covers the
whole life of a user account. Learners create a group and accounts at example.invalid, reset passwords and unlock
accounts, clean up accounts nobody uses, and hand content over from one user to another.
At a glance
| Course | Site administration |
| Duration | 3 hours 10 minutes (five lessons) |
| Lessons | 5 |
| Level | Intermediate |
| Format | Hands-on; one training installation per learner, with a terminal |
Lessons
| Lesson | Duration | What learners do |
|---|---|---|
| 2.1 Users and user groups | 35 min | Read groups and their roles, create a user group |
| 2.2 Creating and managing user accounts | 40 min | Create users, add a second group, move, disable and enable |
| 2.3 Passwords, resets and lockouts | 45 min | Change and reset passwords, lock and unlock an account |
| 2.4 Unactivated users and checking user accounts | 40 min | Activate a registration, filter accounts, act in bulk, export CSV |
| 2.5 Changing the owner of content | 30 min | Hand a folder over to another user, preview on the command line |
Preparing this module
- Each learner's training installation from Module 1, with an administrator account and a terminal in the root.
- Check on your own installation which user groups the site package creates and whether the public site offers registration (lesson 2.4, step 1); adjust the exercises if they differ.
- Check that Change owner is in the context menu (the extension ezownerchange is active) for lesson 2.5.
- A list of passwords of at least 10 characters for the test accounts, or a password manager per learner.
- Every address in the exercises is at
example.invalid. Mail on a training installation stays in files.
Timing plan
| Time | Item |
|---|---|
| 0:00 | Lesson 2.1 (35 min) |
| 0:35 | Lesson 2.2 (40 min) |
| 1:15 | Break (15 min) |
| 1:30 | Lesson 2.3 (45 min) |
| 2:15 | Break (10 min) |
| 2:25 | Lesson 2.4 (40 min) |
| 3:05 | Lesson 2.5 (30 min) |
| 3:35 | End (3 h 10 min of lessons plus 25 min of breaks) |
Related pages
- Site administration: course overview
- Trainers: start here
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
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