yappa-ng Regular Documentation

ADMIN Concept

The Administrator-Concept of yappa-ng

There are 3 different types of administrators for yappa-ng:

yappa-ng (System) Administrator (SysAd)

This is the guy who has shell-access and/or ftp-access to the webserver and who is responsible for the complete yappa-ng installation.

He can change the global yappa-ng configuration with the Setup Tool and has access to the yappa-ng ToolBox.

He decides where to install yappa-ng (the paths of yappa-ng), which Grafic Library is used, if image-caching is used, which languages are used or if different templates are availlable - and much more. Most of this installation runs semiautomatic - only very little info is really required to make yappa-ng run! Everything else is only configuring yappa-ng to your liking! :-)

In most cases this yappa-ng admin will be YOU !!! ;-)

And in most cases you will create an album (and if you don't use it for your own purpose) give the admin-password for THIS NEW album to an Album-Administrator.

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Album Administrator

This can literaly be everyone who gets an adminpassword to an album.

In most cases this will be a friend, a family member, a collegue, a member of your club - or could even be a paying client.

The Album-Admin can configure 'HIS' album to his liking, can upload/delete/rotate images, can change the thumbnail-layout and the image-sort-criteria, can decide if he wants to use image-hits-counters, Top-10-reports, can write/edit/delete image captions and album-descriptions in all languages, can set userpasswords and much more.

He can also create new sub-albums WITHIN 'HIS' album and give it another admin-password!

But outside of 'HIS' album/subalbums he is just another user who can only view other albums (if he got a userpassword from the other album-admin). ;-)

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Power User

If the yappa-ng Administrator permitted (enabled) the "PowerUser" in the global configuration than the Album Admin can give a second Admin-Password to each Album.

The Album Admin can configure the rights and the accessible Album Admin Modules to his liking and to the needs at hand. But there is only ONE PowerUser per Album!!

If you log in as PowerUser with this PowerUser password your action within the Album-Admin Menu are restricted to the Admin-Modules the Album Admin configured.
The only restrictions for the configuration of the PowerUser are:

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Part of yappa-ng Documentation by Fritz 'wizard' Berger: >> yappa-ng Homepage <<