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perl loncom/build/make_domain_coordinator.pl will have been run (as root) in the loncapa-X.Y.Z directory created when the LON-CAPA tarball was uncompressed.

This command will have created a new Linux user, who will be filesystem authenticated when logging into LON-CAPA, and who will have been assigned the Domain Coordinator role.

A Domain Coordinator can add users to the domain and assign any role in the domain with the exception of the Domain Coordinator role. To assign the Domain Coordinator role to other users, someone with root privileges on a library server in the domain can:

• run perl make_domain_coordinator.pl to create a new user (filesystem authenticated). make_domain_coordinator.pl will fail if:
  • the user already has a Linux account, or

  • the username is already in use for an existing LON-CAPA user in the domain.

• assign the Domain Coordinator role to an existing LON-CAPA user by running the following command in the loncapa-X.Y.Z directory
  • perl loncom/build/add_domain_coordinator_privilege.pl [USERNAME:DOMAIN] [DCDOMAIN]
    • where USERNAME:DOMAIN are the username and domain of an existing user, who is to be granted Domain Coordinator privileges,

    • DCDOMAIN is the domain to be coordinated. Note: DCDOMAIN must be a domain for which the server where the command is run is a library server. Furthermore, the home library server of the user to whom the role is to be assigned must be the server where the command is being run.