kat Online Bookmark Manager - Administration Guide
By Mitch Stuart
Copyright © 2005 FullSpan Software
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Usage subject to license
Software Version: 1.0
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Document Version: $Revision: 1.2 $, $Date: 2005/07/03 06:48:02 $
Introduction
kat is an online bookmark manager that enables you to organize internet links and other brief snippets of information in a hierarchy of categories.
This document is the Administration Guide for kat. See the Overview for general information and a list of other available kat documentation.
User Types
There are three types of users in kat:
- Guest (anonymous) users. Anyone can browse kat entries that are marked as public. Guest users are either users that do not have an account, or users that do have an account but are not currently logged in.
- Authors. Authors are "regular" kat users who can create and edit entries, mark them as public and private, and manage their own account. Whether or not a user can create their own account is a setting that the administrator can control; this is described later.
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Administrators. Administrators (admin users) are "privileged" kat users who can do everything that Authors can do, and can also:
- create, edit, and delete other user accounts
- access other user data (even data marked as private)
- manage application settings
This document discusses the kat application features that are specific to Administrators.
Default Admin User
For a default kat installation, one user is created during the installation:
- Login ID: admin
- Password: changeme
Note that these are the default values. As discussed in the Installation Guide, these values can be changed at installation time. If your installation uses the default values, you should login as admin immediately after installation and change the password.
Admin Navbar Links
The top navbar has some additional links when the logged in user is an administrator:
These features are discussed in the remainder of this document.
App Settings
Click the App Settings navbar link to display the App Settings screen:
The "Self Registration" checkbox determines whether new users can create their own account. If this is not enabled, an administrator will have to create accounts for new users. Note that the "Self Registration" feature is only for Author accounts. An Administrator account can only be created by an existing Administrator.
User List
Click on the List Users navbar link to display the list of users:
In the Login ID column, click a Login ID to browse that user's entries. If the user is an Administrator, an icon will appear next to the Login ID: 
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In the Action column, you can edit or delete a user. These actions are described later.
The remaining columns provide basic user and usage information.
Create / Edit User
To create a new user, click on the Add User navbar link. To edit an existing user, click on the edit icon in the User List: 
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This screen is very similar to the "My Account" screen that non-admin users can use to create and edit their own accounts. However, there are some differences:
- Non-admin users can only create Author accounts (and then only if Self Registration is enabled); non-admin users cannot create Administrator accounts and cannot change the User Type. For admin users, admin accounts can be created, and the User Type of any account can be changed.
- When non-admin users change their password, they need to provide both the old and new passwords. An admin user can change any user's password without knowing the old password; only the new password needs to be provided.
Delete User
To delete a user, click on the delete icon in the User List: 
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Caution: Deleting a user will also delete all of the entries owned by that user.