To edit general user settings, follow these steps:
- From the Users & Groups tab of the Administrator Dashboard , select General from the User Settings menu of the Users sidebar.
Result: The General User Settings pane is displayed.
- Enter the required information in the following fields:
- Username pattern- The Regex pattern for usernames.
- Valid identification fields- The ID types a user can login with, such as their username or email address.
- Cookie Domain for SSO- The domain for your cookie for a cookie SSO.
- Email Domain Whitelist- Only allows emails from a specific domain name to register.
- Ratio of similarity between username and password-determines how much of a password can share characters with a user’s username.
- Select from the following checkboxes:
- Use real name as screen name- The user’s real name (as provided in the user profile) is used in place of a username in the AnswerHub User Interface (UI).
- Allow email reuse- Allows multiple users to share a single email address.
- Gravatar enabled- The Gravatar for a user is displayed in the AnswerHub UI.
- Remove Users membership on joining higher permission group - If selected, when a user is added to a group with higher level permissions set than those in the Users group, they are automatically removed from the Users group.
Note: This is important for permissions settings. For more information, see theAnswerHub Permissions Guide.
- Enter the default avatar size in the Default avatar size field.
- To prevent brute force login attempts, select the Protect against brute force login attempts checkbox.
- Enter the required information in the following fields:
- Max login attempts before temporary blocking- Enter the number of times that a user can fail to log in before the username they are using is blocked.
- Seconds Between Temporary Login Requests- How many seconds will be waited between requests.
- Number of minutes to check for failed login attempts - How many minutes will be dedicated to attempting to validate failed log in requests.
- To show the number of reputation points and badges that are available and have been received, click the Statistics to show (reputation and badges count) drop-down menu and select from the following:
- per network
- per site
- Select from the following checkboxes to enable them:
- Hide content from deactivated users - If selected, hides all of your site content from deactivated users.
- Match social logins by username & email - This feature is used to try and prevent duplicate accounts. If selected, your AnswerHub site will automatically attempt to locate an existing account and connect users to their social logins according to username and email address. If no account matches, a new one will be created.
- Click the Save (
) button.
Result: A green bar that reads Settings were successfully changed for user. is displayed at the top of the General User Settings pane.
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