This page last changed on Aug 22, 2006 by noam@atlassian.com.
There are two ways a new user can be added to Confluence:
Public Signup: Enabling public signup from the Administration Console allows users to sign themselves up to the site.
By Site Administrators : If you want to restrict your site to a select group of users, you may want to disable 'Public Signup'. In this instance, site administrators can add new users from the Administration Console.
To add a new user to Confluence from the Administration Console,
- Go to the 'Administration Console' and click on 'Manage Users' in the left panel.
- Click on the link 'Add new user' listed at the top of the page.
- In the form displayed, enter the user's details: username, password, name and email id.
- Click 'Create' to add the user.
 
I expected that if I do not enter a password for the new user, one would be automatically generated. Shouldn't this be so?

Posted by davida at Jul 28, 2006 03:40
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Is an email notification automatically sent to the user when a new account is created? Can this be disabled?

Posted by davida at Oct 31, 2006 04:57
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I am curious if the user is prompted to automatically change their password when they log in the first time and what kind of password rules there are. And if these are configurable...

Posted by jguthrie at Nov 02, 2006 17:27
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In response to this and your previous question: first, passwords are required because after a user is created there is no email sent out to anyone and the admin doesn't have access to the current password(though they can reset the password). If the password is automatically generated there would be no access to it. Second, emails aren't sent out after new user creation.

Posted by nicholas@atlassian.com at Nov 02, 2006 17:46
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Hi,I'm new to confluence and I'm trying to figure out the Add New User and Password/email piece. This thread answered a couple of my questions, however, I have question pertaining to the statement "and the admin doesn't have access to the current password (though they can reset the password)." Doesn't the Admin have to put in a password when they create a new user? Also, new users are not prompted to change their passwords when logging in for the first time. As an Admin, I may have to send an email to the new User providing them w/their login credentials and tell them to change their password. This the correct approach?

Posted by a358072 at Nov 03, 2006 10:30
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Yes, the administrator must give the user a password when the user is created. Your approach is correct if the user is not in your presence when you create their account.

Posted by tom@atlassian.com at Nov 08, 2006 23:17
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We're using JIRA and I like the jelly script feature where you can create an XML file to automatically perform some manual tasks (i.e. create users, etc.). Is this possible in Confluence to script the creation of a user account?

Posted by bcubas at Mar 07, 2007 14:11
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Hi,
Confluence doesn't have such things as jelly scripts. I would recommend using XML-RPC so that you could access Confluence through your favourite scripting language. You can find more information about the Confluence XML-RPC API at http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/3QI.
SaM

Posted by sleberrigaud at Mar 12, 2007 00:44
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