The feature of User Account Creation (a.k.a. Self Account Creation) is only available on systems that use DatabaseAuthentication.

To change authentication types, either re-run CONFIGURE_SUBMITTY.py or manually edit /usr/local/submitty/config/authentication.json and change the authentication method to DatabaseAuthentication.

See also Managing Enrollment

Enable Self Account Creation

To enable self account creation if you already have a Submitty instance setup, manually edit the /usr/local/submitty/config/submitty.json configuration file. By default, user_create_account is set to false. To enable it, change this to true. You will also need to add configuration settings for "user_id_requirements":

"user_create_account": true,
"user_id_requirements": {
    "any_user_id": 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"
    ]
}

Email and User ID Requirements

• 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, it will accept shorter usernames. (e.g. James Wo -> woja, and James Joseph -> joseja)

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