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1.TH USERREG 1 "30 Nov 1988" "Project Athena"
2\" RCSID: $HeadURL: svn+ssh://svn.mit.edu/moira/trunk/moira/man/userreg.1 $ $Id: userreg.1 3956 2010-01-05 20:56:56Z zacheiss $
3.SH NAME
4userreg \- create an account for a person known to Moira
5.SH SYNOPSIS
6.B userreg
7.SH DESCRIPTION
8.B userreg
9will take over the terminal, and in a user friendly way ask for the
10user's full name and ID number, then allow them to chose a login name
11and a password and create their account.  All access to the Moira
12database and Kerberos server is through the
13.B reg_svr
14running on the Moira server machine.  Many of the screens of helpful
15text that are displayed for the user are contained in text files in
16the working directory of
17.B userreg.
18.PP
19When
20.B userreg
21first starts, it checks the file
22.B disabled.times
23to determine if it is allowed to register people now.  This file
24contains lines in
25.I crontab
26format indicating times when users are not allowed to register.  The
27command field of these lines contain a text message that is displayed
28if there is a match for the time interval on that line.
29.SH FILES
30disabled.times
31.br
32/mit/register/welcome
33.br
34/mit/register/network_down
35.br
36/mit/register/username_blurb
37.br
38/mit/register/password_blurb
39.br
40/mit/register/deleted_acct
41.br
42/mit/register/not_allowed
43.br
44/mit/register/improper_reg
45.SH SEE ALSO
46reg_svr(8),
47The Project Athena Technical Plan section on Moira
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