Creating accounts
Once you've drawn up a plan for your site design, and who is to have access to which area, you are going to want to create the accounts.
OK, this is your first etomite website, and you just want to get started - you'll do the planning bit later... So to help you get started here are some simple guidelines and basic instructions for creating a user account.
Admin accounts
The first admin account
You'll already have created the first admin account when you installed Etomite. If you read through the installation instructions before installing you won't have used 'admin' as the account name. (If you didn't read the instructions, there's a simple reason - you shouldn't use an easily guessable account name, as this maakes hacking attempts easier. If you have set the account name to admin, don't panic - anyone trying to hack into the account only gets three guesses at the password before the account gets blocked. If you set the password to admin as well change it!)
Use this account purely for administrative tasks. Some snippets display the name of the author of a page, and if set to display the account name may be used for this purpose. You don't want to leave any clues as to the admin account name.
A second admin account
One of the first things you should do once you have installed etomite is to create a second admin account. This will allow you a second chance at logging in if the first account should get locked out for some reason. The same rules as for the first admin account apply - don't use an easily guessable account name or password, and don't use the account for anything other than admin tasks.
To create the account
- go to the Manage Users page (under Users in the top left manager panel), and select 'create new user'
- fill in the form. Leave the role as administrator (you shouldn't initially have any other options anyway). Ignore the 'permissions' panel if present.
- press the Save button
User accounts
Once you've got the admin accounts set up, create a user account for your own use. Again, the account name ideally shouldn't be immediately obvious from your name, because that's going to get published on the site at some stage or other, as author of some news item or other element on a page.
To create the account
- go to the manage users page
- select role management and create a new role - at this stage you probably want to select most capabilities
- go back to manage users and create a new user
You can use this account to experiment and find out how the permissions interact.
Finally, you need to plan how the site will work, what accounts are needed and what rights and permissions. You'll find all you need for this in the sections under 'Users and Permissions'