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1.1       raeburn     1: \label{Creating_Domain_Coordinators}
                      2: When LON-CAPA was first installed for a domain, an initial library
                      3: server will have been set up, and the command
                      4: 
                      5: perl loncom/build/make\_domain\_coordinator.pl will have been run
                      6: (as root) in the loncapa-X.Y.Z directory created when the LON-CAPA
                      7: tarball was uncompressed. 
                      8: 
                      9: This command will have created a new Linux user, who will be filesystem
                     10: authenticated when logging into LON-CAPA, and who will have been assigned
                     11: the Domain Coordinator role.
                     12: 
                     13: A Domain Coordinator can add users to the domain and assign any role
                     14: in the domain with the exception of the Domain Coordinator role. To
                     15: assign the Domain Coordinator role to other users, someone with root
                     16: privileges on a library server in the domain can:
                     17: 
                     18: \begin{itemize}
                     19: \item run perl make\_domain\_coordinator.pl to create a new user (filesystem
                     20: authenticated). make\_domain\_coordinator.pl will fail if:
                     21: 
                     22: \begin{itemize}
                     23: \item the user already has a Linux account, or 
                     24: \item the username is already in use for an existing LON-CAPA user in the
                     25: domain.
                     26: \end{itemize}
                     27: \item assign the Domain Coordinator role to an existing LON-CAPA user by
                     28: running the following command in the loncapa-X.Y.Z directory
                     29: 
                     30: \begin{itemize}
                     31: \item perl loncom/build/add\_domain\_coordinator\_privilege.pl {[}USERNAME:DOMAIN]
                     32: {[}DCDOMAIN] 
                     33: 
                     34: \begin{itemize}
                     35: \item where USERNAME:DOMAIN are the username and domain of an existing user,
                     36: who is to be granted Domain Coordinator privileges,
                     37: \item DCDOMAIN is the domain to be coordinated. Note: DCDOMAIN must be a
                     38: domain for which the server where the command is run is a library
1.2     ! raeburn    39: server. Furthermore, the home library server of the user to whom the role is 
        !            40: to be assigned must be the server where the command is being run.
        !            41:  
1.1       raeburn    42: \end{itemize}
                     43: \end{itemize}
                     44: \end{itemize}