<sect1 id="server-usage-users">

    <title>Administering Users Accounts</title>

    <para>

        In order for you to use any service provided by the server

        computer it is required that you register yourself inside the

        server computer creating a user profile.  The user profile

        provides the user information required by services inside the

        server computer (e.g., username, password, e-mail address,

        telephone number, etc.). To register new user profiles, you

        need to use the web application provided by the server

        computer. For example, assuming the domain name of the server

        computer is 

        class="domainname">example.com</systemitem>, the web

        application would be accessable through the following URL:

        <ulink url="https://example.com/people/?action=register" />.

    </para>

    <para>

        To reach the web interface, the first thing you need to do is

        establishing a dial-up connection to the server computer as

        described in 

        linkend="server-config"/>. Once the

        dial-up connection has been established, you need to open a

        web browser (e.g., Firefox) and put the URL mentioned above in

        the address space, and press Enter to go. This will present

        you a web page with the instructions you need to follow in

        order to register your user profile.  Other actions like

        updating or deleting your own user profile should be also

        possible from this web interface.

    </para>

    <important>

    <para>

        The web interface used to manage user profiles inside the

        server computer must be presented over an encrypted session in

        order to protect all the information passing through.

    </para>

    </important>

    <para>

        Inside the server computer, all related subsystems in need of

        user information (e.g., Postix, Cyrus-Imapd and Saslauthd)

        retrive user information from one single (LDAP) source. The

        web application provided by the server computer manages all

        these subsystems' configuration files in order to provide a

        pleasant experience for end users.  The web interface must be

        as simple as possible in order to achieve all administration

        tasks in the range of time permitted by the server computer

        before it closes the connection established from the client

        computer.

    </para>

    <para>

        More information about the web interface you need to use to

        manage your user profile inside the server computer can be

        found in ....

    </para>

</sect1>