User and Group Administration

Confluence User Accounts

MIT Users are added in two ways

• A basic account is automatically created when an MIT certificate-bearing user first arrives on the site.
• A basic account is automatically created when a new user is detected in
  any of the groups in the Moira feed (which imports any groups which are inside the container list named confluence-groups).

Non-MIT users

• A non-MIT user arriving on the site is redirected to a username/password login page. If the user does not yet have an account, he/she can follow a 'register' link from that page in order to caues a basic account created. Submission of the registration form causes a basic account to be created.

Confluence Groups

• Confluence groups map to Moira groups. In order to add a user to a Confluence group, add that user to the proper Moira group. As a space administrator, you will see links to the web-Moira interface from the Space Administration/Permissions page (look to the bottom of the left-hand navigation menu). These links allow you to administer the group(s) associated with your space. As a member of the <space>-admin group yourself, you should generally be able to administer the relevent group associated with the space.

• A nightly Moira feed synchronizes internal Confluence groups with their corresponding Moira groups.
• If, in the feed, an MIT user is detected who does not yet have a basic Confluence account, an account will be created for that user and the user will be added to the appropriate Confluence group(s).
• If a non-MIT user is detected in the feed, a basic account will not be created, but, if the account already exists, the user will be added to the appropriate group(s) (the non-MIT user needs to create an account via the 'register' page before he/she can be added to a group).