Hi Folks,
Over the past few months I've been using the CS distribution mostly so I may just be making some silly mistakes/assumptions - but I wanted a reality check on 4.6. I'm posting here in support because I assume that these are not real issues - just user stupidity -
1) I've installed on my local WinXP box 2) When I browse to the site for the first time I am faced with creating a new user. The register page is asking for an email and telling me it will email me the password. Since sending mail is not really an option on my WinXP box it seems like this will never work. I try anyway and viola - I get the password presented to me in the browser. I assume this is because the mail failed etc. etc. I think quite a few people will be stopped here - a note to the confused would be an improvement. 3) What happened to the admin/users tabs that let me get to the access rules? After much poking around I *stumbled* over them in a link at admin/modules in the *explanation text* at the top of the page - which brought me to admin/access/permissions - I couldn't find this in the menu's anywhere - really confusing.
Dan
On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 18:27:44 -0800, Dan Robinson dan@civicactions.com wrote:
- What happened to the admin/users tabs that let me get to the access
rules? After much poking around I *stumbled* over them in a link at admin/modules in the *explanation text* at the top of the page - which brought me to admin/access/permissions - I couldn't find this in the menu's anywhere - really confusing.
New to 4.6 is the "access control" menu under "administer". Is that what you're looking for?
Dan Robinson wrote:
- When I browse to the site for the first time I am faced with creating
a new user. The register page is asking for an email and telling me it will email me the password. Since sending mail is not really an option on my WinXP box it seems like this will never work. I try anyway and viola - I get the password presented to me in the browser. I assume this is because the mail failed etc. etc.
Nope, the password is always present in the browser to the first user (User ID == 1, essentially the super user or super admin of a Drupal site). Likewise, user number 1 never gets e-mail during this initial creation. The assumption is that you have just installed your software and are just creating your first user, which needs to happen quickly for security purposes.
The documentation and explanatory text could be improved.
-- Chris Johnson
Yeah - I sat there staring at the thing for 5 minutes thinking "shoot, now what do I do....?" It would be helpful if there was more verbage around this.
Dan
Dan Robinson wrote:
- When I browse to the site for the first time I am faced with
creating a new user. The register page is asking for an email and telling me it will email me the password. Since sending mail is not really an option on my WinXP box it seems like this will never work. I try anyway and viola - I get the password presented to me in the browser. I assume this is because the mail failed etc. etc.
Nope, the password is always present in the browser to the first user (User ID == 1, essentially the super user or super admin of a Drupal site). Likewise, user number 1 never gets e-mail during this initial creation. The assumption is that you have just installed your software and are just creating your first user, which needs to happen quickly for security purposes.
The documentation and explanatory text could be improved.
-- Chris Johnson
Dan Robinson wrote:
Yeah - I sat there staring at the thing for 5 minutes thinking "shoot, now what do I do....?" It would be helpful if there was more verbage around this.
Feel free to write a snippet. I'll incorporate it in the code for you.
How about:
"INSTALL NOTE: If you are setting up the system for the first time simply enter in a username and email address. After pressing "submit" your new temporary password will be displayed to you in the web browser. This is also helpful if you are installing Drupal on a system which cannot generate email. This is a one-time feature when creating "user 1" - the "master admin" account.
or something like that.
Dan Robinson wrote:
Yeah - I sat there staring at the thing for 5 minutes thinking "shoot, now what do I do....?" It would be helpful if there was more verbage around this.
Feel free to write a snippet. I'll incorporate it in the code for you.
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