Administering WebNotice
Overview

There are two types of administrative users of the WebNotice system:

Super Users
Superusers can make major configurational changes to the WebNotice system. Each department or organization registered with WebNotice should designate one person as the superuser.

A superuser can do three things:

1. Create new "regular" users (see below), and assign initial passwords. Superusers cannot modify passwords once created).
2. Modify information about existing departmental groups, namely::
   1. associate regular users with a departmental group. Once associated with a departmental group, a regular user can create, modify or delete postings to that group;
   2. modify the selection of newsgroups and listservs associated with notices. However, a superuser cannot add a newsgroup or listserv. This must be done by the WebNotice adminstrator.
3. Add new groups under the department. The superuser cannot arbitrarily create a group name, but must select a group from a list of available groups. New groups are created by the WebNotice administrator.

Regular Users
Regular users (but not superusers) can add, modify or delete notices under departmental groups.

Only superusers can create regular users (i.e., username and password) but once created, only regular users can change their password using the change password form.

Even with a username and password, a regular user must be attached to a department and group by the superuser before notices can be posted.

1. authorized listservs
2. authorized newsgroups
3. authorized departmental groups

Only the WebNotice administrator can add new listservs, newsgroups and departmental groups.