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Can users create their own accounts



  • 2007-04-29 21:48:32

    Can users create their own accounts

    I'm new to ATutor. I can create accounts when I'm logged in as an administrtator. However, new users are unable to create their own accounts. The error that they receive is "The password must contain letters, numbers, and symbols". Yes, I have tried to create an account myself as a new user to the site. I get the same error no matter what kind of password I try. I would really appreciate it if someone could show me how to set permissions so that a new user to my site could create an account.


  • 2007-04-30 08:13:24

    Re: Can users create their own accounts?

    Does the login name contain letters and numbers and/or symbols? It can not contain letters alone, or numbers alone.


  • 2007-04-30 09:44:17

    Re: Can users create their own accounts?

    When I add a special character and a number to the password it gives me a "Password must be at least 8 characters long." error. I find this odd because the password that I created had 10 characters. The login name that I was using was test2.


  • 2007-04-30 09:55:35

    Re: Can users create their own accounts?

    Send me a link to your installation. I'll try it.


  • 2007-04-30 10:33:38

    Re: Can users create their own accounts?

    My site is at http://capstone.selfip.net/ATutor/registration.php. I'm using it for a class project. The head of our department is interested in open source alternatives to Blackboard. My next step is to see if I can integrate it into Mambo. I can create accounts for users as an admin so it isn't a show stopper. It'll just make it easier for individuals to try it out if they can create their own accounts. I want to thank you for your prompt response to this issue.


  • 2007-04-30 10:41:57

    Re: Can users create their own accounts?

    It works fine.

    You need to include something other that just numbers, or just letters in the password.


  • 2007-04-30 11:16:56

    Re: Can users create their own accounts?

    I can see that you created an account. That means that I screwing something up in a really dumb way. I tried to create a user called test1test and tried to give it a password of !Password1 and I keep getting the "Password must be at least 8 characters long." error.


  • 2007-04-30 11:22:21

    Re: Can users create their own accounts?

    Perhaps it does not like the exclamation mark.

    Try other combinations to see what works and does not work. If there is a bug here, you can help track it down.


  • 2007-04-30 11:41:42

    Re: Can users create their own accounts?

    I get the same error when I try to use any of the following special characters, !@#$%^&*. I try entering the same password without the special character and it works fine. The odd thing that I noticed is that it allows me to use the password !Password1 to create a new account when logged in as admin, but it won't let me do it when I'm trying to create an account as a new user.


  • 2007-04-30 11:55:50

    Re: Can users create their own accounts?

    I've reported this to the bug tracker.

    You could probably track down the regular expressions being used in the registration form to check characters entered in the password field, and replace it with the one used in the admin create use form.

    Post the fix here when you've figured it out, and we'll add it to the developing source code. And so others can make the fix if it becomes a problem for them.


  • 2007-06-28 15:13:23

    Re: Can users create their own accounts?

    I am having the exact same problem too.