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User Management
There are, at the highest level, two kinds of users that will be visiting your web site, those being the anonymous user the the authenticated user. The difference between them is if they are logged in or not. Every user is an anonymous user until they log in, they are then an authenticated user. In order to log in they need to have an account with their user name and password.
Your web site has the ability to allow user accounts to be created in three different ways. If you click into "Administer > User management > User settings" you will be able to set it up with one of the following three options:
- Only administrators can set up user accounts.
- Visitors can create their own accounts.
- Visitors can create account that require approval from an administrator.
That same control panel also allows you to set a few other user management options. The other options that are controlled and configured in this area are the content of the various emails that are sent to the user when various actions are taken on their account. Actions such as verifying the email address upon registrations, when a password is being recovered, when an account is deleted, blocked or is awaiting administrator approval.
You can enable or disable user signature support, which auto-appends signatures at the end of forum posts and such, or picture uploads for accounts.
This area also lets you input some text to go before the registration form to explain any rules of registration, the process of administrator approval or that sort of thing.