======= Accounts and User Management =======

===== Overview =====

There are some major changes coming down the pipeline for our valued Real Geeks customers that will hopefully greatly improve your user-experience.  Currently, you need a login username and password for each site you own on the lead manager, plus a different login for your website backend and yet another login for the account management system.  This, in our opinion, is just silly.  We are moving towards a single sign-on system that will allow you to have just one account that can be used to login to every single Real Geeks service!

Additionally, we're including a "permissions" system that will allow users to modify the permissions of people that they would like to work on their site.  You can now grant specific privileges to certain parts of the administration page to specific people.

===== What does "single sign-on" actually mean? =====

It would mean that if you logged into http://accounts.realgeeks.com/ you could then just type in the address to your website administration page (http://www.yourwebsite.com/admin) and you would be automatically logged in, and vice-versa.

===== How do permissions work? =====

You can login to http://accounts.realgeeks.com/, select your site from the list provided and then review permissions for users you've chosen to include on your site.  If your user doesn't exist, you can simply create a new account for them.  An email will be sent out with their login/credentials to the email you've included.

The same user may be added to multiple sites, just by typing in the same email address multiple times.  They can have different permissions for every site you own.

===== What are the permissions someone can modify? =====

Right now there are four website backend permissions that may be modified; however, in the future this will grow to include permissions for both the Real Geeks Accounts system and the Real Geeks Lead Manager.

The four permissions you may set are:
  - **Website**
    - Blog - The user may modify, add, or delete blog content on the page.
    - Content - The user may modify, add, or delete website content.
    - Site Settings - The user may modify site settings (phone number, logo, header image, etc.).
    - Craigslist - The user may submit Craigslist listings on your behalf.

===== What's to come? =====

  - The Lead Manager is going to be included into the single sign-on system.  This will accompany a handy navigation bar that will allow you to quickly switch between sites.
  - We're going to be extending the permissions system to include all of the permissions currently available in the lead manager.
  - There are going to be additional accounts permissions added as well, potentially including the ability to give someone else control over the billing for your website.

===== I'm still lost, what should I do? =====

Consult the [[:permissions_and_user_management|Permissions and User Management Usage Guide]].

Then, if it still is unclear to you how to get started, feel free to contact us via our new [[http://support.realgeeks.com/|Real Geeks Support Form]] (http://support.realgeeks.com/).