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1.2       raeburn     1: Prior to LON-CAPA 2.7, default language and authentication type/argument
                      2: were defined in the domain's entry in the domain.tab file. Those settings
                      3: will continue to be used by servers in your domain until you have
                      4: displayed and saved the Default authentication/language/timezone data
                      5: table. Once that has been done, whenever values need to be determined
                      6: for these settings in the domain they will be retrieved from the configuration.db
                      7: file on the primary library server in your domain, which is where
1.3     ! raeburn     8: information saved from the {}``Domain Configuration'' data tables
1.2       raeburn     9: is stored. Any information in the domain.tab file will no longer be
                     10: consulted, except by servers running pre-2.7 versions of LON-CAPA.
1.1       raeburn    11: 
1.2       raeburn    12: Default domain configurations can be assigned for: 
1.1       raeburn    13: 
                     14: \begin{itemize}
1.2       raeburn    15: \item default language used by users in your domain, unless overridden by
                     16: a user preference
                     17: \item default authentication type for new users in the domain. You will
                     18: need to set the default authentication if you intend to allow a user
                     19: to create a LON-CAPA account if the user successfully authenticated
                     20: via a central service at your institution (e.g., Kerberos), but is
                     21: without a LON-CAPA account. The default authentication is also the
                     22: default offered when Course Coordinators or Authors create new accounts,
                     23: assuming user creation is permitted in these contexts.
                     24: \item default timezone - this will be the timezone used when showing any
                     25: times in your domain, unless overridden at a course level, by a course-wide
                     26: timezone. The timezones available are mostly in the form Continent/City,
                     27: although for the USA there are some in the form America/State/City
                     28: as well as EST5EDT, CST6CDT, MST7MDT, PST8PDT and HST (for Eastern,
                     29: Central, Mountain, Pacific and Hawaii Timezones, which adjust for
                     30: daylight savingas as appropriate). If no default timezone is set times
                     31: will be displayed according to the timezine of the server hosting
                     32: the user's LON-CAPA session.
1.1       raeburn    33: \end{itemize}