Gebruikersbeheer
From LimeSurvey Manual
Gebruikersbeheer
Aanmaken van gebruikers
Open het gebruikersbeheer om een nieuwe gebruiker toe te voegen (main menu -> Create/Edit users File:LimeSurveyBenuzerVerwaltung.jpg).
- Vul de gewenste gebruikersnaam in het veld Username
- Vul het emailadres in het veld Email. Merk op:
- Als je de gebruiker geen bevestigingsemail wilt sturen, je hier je eigen adres moet invoeren. Na bevestiging kun je het adres van de gebruiker invullen.
- LimeSurvey stuurt altijd een bevestigingsmail. Dit adres wordt ook gebruikt als contactadres voor enqûetes die door deze gebruiker aangemaakt worden.
- Vul de volledige naam van de gebruiker in het veld Full Name. Dit is de volledige naam die getoond wordt bij contactpersoon
- Klik de button Add user
De gebruiker is nu aangemaakt. Daarna zul je de rechten willen instellen, waarover later meer.
Wijzigen van gebruikers
Gebruik het pen-icoon 
om een gebruiker te wijzigen.
Daarna kun je emailadres, naam en wachtwoord wijzigen. Om de wijziging(en) op te slaan klik op Save
Verwijderen van gebruikers
Gebruik het verwijder-icoon 
om een gebruiker te verwijderen, en bevestig de verwijdering met OK.
Algemene rechten
Globale rechten gelden voor iedereen en voor alle enqûetes. Gebruik Survey permission om de rechten van een specifieke enqûete in te stellen.
Globale rechten voor een gebruiker instellen
Klik op het sleutel-icoon 
om de globale rechten voor een gebruiker in te stellen.
Nu kun je de volgende rechten instellen:
- SuperAdministrator: geeft de gebruiker alle rechten binnen LimeSurvey. Alleen in te stellen door de gebruiker genaamd admin. Bedenk: dit is erge gevaarlijk, en je moet dus voorzichtig zijn om dit recht weg te geven.
- Create survey: geeft de gebruiker het recht om een enqûete te maken, te activeren en de deactiveren.
- Configurator: geeft de gebruiker rechten om de data te controleren, een dump te maken van de SQL-database en de PHP info in te zien.
- Create user: geeft de gebruiker het recht om gebruikers aan te maken, te wijzigen, te verwijderen en maximaal zijn eigen rechten te geven. Andere rechten kunnen alleen door een SuperAdministrator ingesteld worden.
- Use all/manage templates: geeft de gebruiker rechten om templates te beheren. Deze gebruiker moet voldoende kennis van HTML/php, Javascript en CSS hebben. Mocht dit niet het geval zijn, stel dan liever de templaterechten in.
- Manage labels: geeft de gebruiker het recht oim labelsets te beheren (aanmaken, wijzigen en verwijderen).
The most important use cases for granting user rights are collected at the use cases part of this article.
Setting template permissions for a user
With template permissions you can set which design templates a user can select when creating or editing a survey. It might be a good idea to restrict the design templates a user can select in order to prevent unwanted use of design templates not suitable for a user/survey.
Please note: If you have a specific design template for a group of users or customers you might want to restrict the access for them to use only the template created for their purpose.
To set/edit the template permissions for a user simply click the key symbol for design templates 
.
You can now select the design templates this user can select. After you finished your selection/deselection just hit Save settings .
The most important use cases for granting user rights are collected at the use cases part of this article.
Setting permissions for a single survey
These permissions only apply for a single survey. If you want to set permissions for the whole system you can use the global permissions.
Please note: An existing user account is required to set permissions for a single survey. If the account doesn't exist you have to create it first and then change the survey permissions. You don't have to apply any global rights to the user, it is just necessary that the user account itself exists.
Setting user permissions for a single survey
To change the survey permissions you have to select Survey permissions from the Survey properties menu.
In the next step you select the user you want to change the survey rights and click Add user.
After you click Set survey permissions the survey permissions matrix for the survey and user will be shown.
In this matrix you can set the rights for the different features and parts. You simply click a checkbox if you want to add or remove this right. If you click a checkbox in the first column all rights for this line will be selected/removed.
In the other columns you can choose whether a user can do a single actions from this feature/part.
After you finished editing the survey permissions click Save now.
The most important use cases for granting user rights are collected at the use cases part of this article.
Use cases
In this part of the article we'll provide a few ideas which use cases may exist and how and which rights would be a good choice.
A new person in charge for administrating LimeSurvey will be added
- login as admin
- Create a new user account
- Set global permissions for user to SuperAdministrator
- not necessary: Setting the template permissions (SuperAdministrator has all permissions for all templates)
- not necessary: Setting the survey permissions (SuperAdministrator has all permissions for all surveys)
A new user wants to create own surveys
- login as admin or user with SuperAdministrator permission.
- Create a new user account
- Set global permissions for user to Create survey
- Set template permissions for user to the template/s that should be used by the user/user-group
- not necessary: Setting the survey permissions (The creator of a survey has all permissions for his/her surveys)
The creator of a survey needs another person to edit his/her survey
- login as admin or user with SuperAdministrator permission.
- Create a new user account
- Set no global permissions for user
- Set no template permissions for user
- Set the survey permissions the way you want. It depends on what the new user should do and how much permissions he/she needs. If he/she should have all permissions for the survey you can select the first checkboxes in the first column with checkboxes (the one with the << or >> button as header).
A person responsible for the survey wants to see the results of the survey and export them
- login as admin or user with SuperAdministrator permission.
- Create a new user account
- Set no global permissions for user
- Set no template permissions for user
- Set survey permissions to: Responses: View/read and export , Statistics: View/read
To be moved somewhere else once better defined:
There are several classes of possible people who access a LimeSurvey installation. But only one set of people is actually termed a user in the code and documentation. So lets understand what these classes of people are so we can better understand the terminology of the program.
| Class | Description |
| Installation Administrator | Those people who create login user accounts to allow others to create, edit, activate and/or view surveys and their results. Often can be given access to edit the templates, labelsets and other key features independent of any particular survey stored. |
| Survey Administrator | A person with a login account that is given some management access to a particular survey. Each survey can have its own set of users with specific rights to manipulate the survey. These rights can be as broad as to activate a survey and possibly edit its question base. They can be as minimum as simply able to review the results to date. |
| Participant | Those people who simply respond or participate in taking a survey. They may or may not have token access. They do not need a login account to the administrative interface and thus are not termed users. |
| Installer | A special class of person who has access to the MySQL (or similar) database server and possibly the command line interface of the computers operating system in order to install and configure the survey software. This person is asked to setup the initial SuperAdmin user account from which other user login accounts can be created. |
| Developer | An very special class of person who has access to the source code and can manipulate it to change the programs behavior. Generally only done with versions of the survey that are not available for live, active surveys. |
Use one-time passwords
Since version 1.81 a user can call the limesurvey login at /limesurvey/admin and pass username and a one time password which was previously written into the users table (column one_time_pw) by an external application.
To enable this login method a setting has to be turned on ($use_one_time_passwords = true;) in config.php.
The URL has to contain the following variables:
- user: The username normally used to login into Limesurvey. This username has to exist in the 'users' table of the database.
- onepass: The plain text password which is then compared to the password in the 'users' table
A valid URL to login using a one-time password will look like this...
... for 1.81 to 1.92:
...for 2.0 or later:
Things to watch out for:
- One time passwords have to be enabled by setting "$use_one_time_passwords = true;" (for 1.92), respective "use_one_time_passwords => true" (for 2.0 in config section) in config.php.
- The passed username has to exist in Limesurvey's users table
- The one time password, which can be set by an external application, has to be stored as MD5 hash in column one_time_pw of table users
- The passed plain text password will be hashed using md5() function and will then be compared to the stored hash in column one_time_pw of table users. Both passwords have to match.
- After the first login with the one time password this password is deleted from the database. The user won't be able to login with this password a second time.