To give someone a role, you have to log in as admin in Roundup. A user can register themselves, but (obviously) can't give themselves privileges (roles). I didn't mean the system administrators.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 1/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stefan Seefeld</b> <<a href="mailto:seefeld@sympatico.ca">seefeld@sympatico.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Paul Dubois wrote:<br>> The normal way one gets a new role is that admin (or to be precise, a<br>> user with edit permissions on class User) goes to their user record and<br>> edits the field 'Roles' to add to the comma-delimited list of roles.
<br>><br>> There is no way for the user to do this themselves nor should there be<br>> because gaining a role gains permissions.<br>><br>> This is, for a normal tracker, no big deal and doing things like this
<br>> was one of the things I expected to do as a member of the Gang of Four.<br>><br>> However, the inability to get to a user record quickly at the moment<br>> would make this a tough thing to do very much of.
<br>><br><br>I'm not sure in what sense you use the term 'normal' here. I certainly<br>don't want admins to be required to play any role in the process of<br>adding users, or giving new previleges to them.
<br><br>Regards,<br> Stefan<br><br>--<br><br> ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...<br></blockquote></div><br>