[WWdevel] professor accounts

[B. Duffee]

Thanks, Sam.  That works a charm.

>On Jan 26, 2005, at 12:12 PM, B. Duffee wrote:
>
>> I'm having a little trouble creating professor accounts from the  
>> system admin
>> webpage.  I have managed to log in as the user, but it immediately  
>> comes up with
>> "User is not authorized to create or delete courses".  I've tried  
>> setting the
>> permission levels up to 7.  Should I go up to 10 or is there something  
>> I'm
>> missing?
>
>Hi,
>
>The default permission level for professors is 10. By default, only  
>professors are allowed to administrate courses. This is controlled in  
>the "Authorization system" section of the global.conf file. The example  
>below if from the development version -- yours may look slightly  
>different.
>
>global.conf reads:
>
>> ####################################################################### 
>> #########
>> # Authorization system
>> ####################################################################### 
>> #########
>>
>> # This lets you specify a minimum permission level needed to perform  
>> certain
>> # actions. For each pair in the hash below, in order to perform the  
>> action
>> # described by the key, the user must have a permission level greater  
>> than or
>> # equal to the value.
>>
>> my $guest     = -1;
>> my $student   = 0;
>> my $ta        = 5;
>> my $professor = 10;
>> my $nobody    = undef;
>>

>Hope this helps.
>-sam
>

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