[Savannah-hackers] Re: Request for account

[Lisa M. Opus Goldstein]

Crystal clear!  In the future I will know how to direct people to that
web page myself.

Thanks for your help!

-Opus






Mathieu Roy <address@hidden> wrote:
> "Lisa M. Opus Goldstein" <address@hidden> said:
> 
> > Dear Mathieu,
> > 
> > Thank you for your time in writing such a detailed answer.  But i am
> > confused and have a few more questions.
> > 
> > If I want to set someone up as an "admin" in a project, so that they
> > can check out, modify, and return the modified project files, don't
> > they need to have a user name/account unique to the Savannah system?
> > If not, what method do they use to log in to the Savannah system?  For
> > instance, I log in as "opus" on Savannah.  Is that a unique account,
> > or does it somehow refer to my fencepost account?
> 
> Each user require a savannah account, you are right. 
> 
> But this account should be created  by the user himself, via this form
> https://savannah.nongnu.org/account/register.php
> 
> After that, a project admin can add a user to his project.
> The user will get write access on the CVS, website, download area for
> the project.
> 
> The project admin can even set the user as project admin too. He will
> be able to admin. this project too.
> 
> 
> So:
>         - yes the user need an account, a savannah account that he
>         should create himself
>         - after, you'll have to add him to a project for which you are
>         admin
>         For instance, if you want him to work on gnupress, you should
>         go, logged in, at 
>         https://savannah.gnu.org/project/admin/userperms.php?group=gnupress
>         - if you want him to be admin on this project (not required to
>         work on the project), you can set him as admin on the same
>         page.
>         
>         
> Better?
> 
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