At 01:17 PM 3/5/01 -0800, you wrote: >I'd like to enable user login for WebNews to provide its preferences >dependent features but don't want the admin. hassle of manually >configuring user accounts. Is there a mechanism to allow users to >automatically create their own accounts restricted to a default profile >and access privileges? > >What I have in mind is a login page that prompts for account creation. New >users enter a possible account name (screen name) and password. Backend >scripts compare the account name against the current list of accounts to >ensure its unique. New accounts inherit privileges from a default account. > >Any help you can provide would be appreciated, scripts, suggestions, >whatever. There's nothing built into webnews to handle this. I believe you could use our netauth http://netwinsite.com/netauth product to implement this, it's intended for use with email but fundamentally it handles web based account creation, you would have to set dnews to use a spawned authent module e.g. nwauth which netauth will also use. ChrisP. ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] a message containing a single line, unsubscribe Problems with: Incoming feed problems: http://netwinsite.com/dnews/feedsin.htm Access rule problems: http://netwinsite.com/dnews/access.htm General FAQ: http://netwinsite.com/dnews/faq.htm
