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Account administration and preferences

Account administration and preferences - Git Tutorial

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Account administration and preferences

- [Instructor] In this lesson, we're going to walk through some simple tips for administering users. You'll see that I'm logged in as our administrative user and we're going to make some changes to the profiles of the maintainer and the contributor accounts. So let's head into the admin area and then navigate to the users section on the sidebar. First, we're going to enter the contributor's account and we're gonna take a look at how we can edit the password for an account. So this is useful if somebody forgets their account or you need to set an initial password for a user. So once you click on the edit button, all you need to do is type in the password for the account and it will then be set for the user. The next time they log in, they will need to specify a new password, but they will be able to use that temporary password you've provided to them. Another neat feature that we're going to use is the impersonate feature. This allows us to enter GitLab as the user to see what they see…

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