self_account_creation.md

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Student > Courses & Profile	Self Account Creation

Enable Self Account Creation

Currently the only way to enable users to create their own accounts is to manually edit the submitty.json configuration file. The default location for this file is /usr/local/submitty/config/submitty.json. By default, self_account_creation_allowed is set to false. To enable it, change this to true.

Email and User ID Requirements

Below are the current accepted requirements for user_ids.

• If all is set to true, then length parameters are the only parameters checked.

• If require_name is true, then the user_id must start with and contain a certain amount of characters from the given name and/or family name.

• If the user does not have the character amount for the given part of the name, then !add fix!

• given_first determines whether the given name or family name must come first. (e.g. Test User -> userte vs teuser)

"user_id_requirements": {
    "all": true,
    "require_name": false,
    "min_length": 6,
    "max_length": 25,
    "name_requirements": {
      "given_first": false,
      "given_name": 2,
      "family_name": 4
    },
    "require_email": false,
    "email_requirements": {
      "whole_email": false,
      "whole_prefix": false,
      "prefix_count": 6
    }
}

"accepted_emails": {
    "gmail.com": true,
    "rpi.edu": true
}