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    1: \label{Domain_Configuration_User_Creation}
    2: Identity management in a LON-CAPA domain is dependent on settings
    3: made for user creation and user modification. Of particular concern
    4: is the potential for assignment of usernames in a format used by your
    5: institution when the username does not yet exist. In such a case,
    6: authentication is likely to be set to be ``internal'',
    7: and should a real user be created in the future, and be enrolled in
    8: a course by auto-enrollment, the user would either be unable to authenticate
    9: (using LON-CAPA log-in page), or would be authenticated by SSO, and
   10: have access to the original user's roles and associated information.
   11: 
   12: It is important therefore to establish format rules for new usernames
   13: so the only users created with institutional-type usernames are the
   14: real users themselves with the appropriate authentication type (Kerberos
   15: or localauth). Even without format rules, the Domain Coordinator can
   16: set who can create new users, and the authentication types that may
   17: be set in different context.
   18: 
   19: The domain-wide options available for user creation are: 
   20: 
   21: \begin{itemize}
   22: \item Activate/deactivate operation of format rule(s) for usernames 
   23: \item Activate/deactivate operation of format rule(s) for student/employee
   24: IDs 
   25: \item Control which types of username (official or non-official) may be
   26: used when creating new users in course or author context 
   27: \item Control which types of authentication may be used when assigning authentication
   28: to new users in author, course or domain context
   29: \end{itemize}
   30: 
   31: The format rules themselves are defined by customizing the following
   32: routines in localenroll.pm: 
   33: 
   34: \begin{itemize}
   35: \item usernames: \&username\_rules() and \&username\_check()
   36: \item IDs: \&id\_rules() and \&id\_check()
   37: \end{itemize}
   38: When enforced the user name and ID rules require that if a username 
   39: and/or ID which matches the format for an active rule is to be used
   40: in LON-CAPA, they must exist in the institutional directory. If they
   41: exist, the corresponding user information (first name, middle name,
   42: last name, e-mail address) will be used when creating the new user
   43: account. If they do not exist, account creation will not occur.
   44:
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