About Noggin¶
Noggin is a self-service portal for creating and managing user accounts and groups.
User accounts¶
How do I create a new account?¶
To create a new account, go to the Noggin home page, choose the register tab, and fill out your basic details:
An email will be sent to your provided email address that includes a validation link, follow this link back to Noggin to validate your email, then set your password:
After setting your password you will be logged into your new account automatically:
Group Members¶
How do I become a member of a group?¶
Group Sponsors have the ability to add new members to the group. A group should provide the information required to request access to the group, otherwise contact a group sponsor directly.
Previously, In FAS2, a user could request access to a group, which a group admininstrator could either approve or deny. In Noggin, users are simply just added to the group by a sponsor after requesting access through other channels for that group, such as email or IRC.
How do I stop being a member of a group?¶
As a group member, you can choose to leave a group at anytime. Press the leave group button on the group detail page:
If you are the sponsor of a group, you can simply remove yourself from the group, as you would remove any other user.
Group Sponsors¶
What is a group sponsor?¶
Groups in Noggin have users with a special sponsor privilege. If a user is a sponsor of a group, they are able to add and remove group members. The sponsors of a group are listed above the group members.
Previously in FAS2, groups had special admininstrator users that had the ability to add both new members and new admininstrators to a group. In Noggin, groups have Sponsors which have the ability to add new members to a group.
How do I become a sponsor of a group?¶
To become a sponsor of a group, you will need to talk to whomever administrates your Noggin system.
Note
In the Fedora Noggin deployment, this is achieved by filing a ticket at https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
How do I stop being a sponsor of a group?¶
To stop being a sponsor of a group, you will need to talk to whomever administrates your Noggin system
Note
In the Fedora Noggin deployment, this is achieved by filing a ticket at https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
As a group sponsor, how do I add members to the group?¶
Add new members to a group in the group detail page. If you are the sponsor of a group, a search bar is visible at the top of the user listing on the group detail page:
Simply search for the user that you want to add, and press enter to add them to the group:
As a group sponsor, how do I remove members from a group?¶
Remove members from a group in the group detail page. If you are the sponsor of a group, each of the users in the user listing have a trash icon button. Simply click this to remove this user from the group.
Two Factor authentication¶
How do I add and use two-factor authentication?¶
Noggin features the ability to configure and user two-factor authentication through the user of OTP tokens. by default, Noggin generates Time-based One-time Password (TOTP) tokens, which can be used with popular authentication apps such as Google Authenticator and FreeOTP.
To create an OTP token in Noggin, go to the OTP tab in the user settings, and click the Add OTP Token button:
Next, add a name for the token and provide your password again. Something descriptive like the name of the app you are adding the token to might prove useful it you decide to add more tokens later:
Your token is now created. Using your chosen authenticator application, scan the QR code and add it to your app.
Next time you log in to Noggin, you will need to enter in your password followed by the 6 digit OTP code generated by your chosen authenticator app.