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At the request of the Beloved Husband, I have been installing Plone. Fine, it is installed. We can haz test instance.

I would like to state that the documentation for this beast is shit.

There are reams upon reams of it, helpfully categorized. But it's all special-cases. There are all sorts of serious, elaborate instructions on how to have it use LDAP, or Active Directory, or specify this, or reject that--but there is NOTHING I HAVE YET FOUND that has the basic. user. creation. process.

This is your future! It's easier! Can't you tell?

Edit: But wait! There's more! By default you can self-register...which I don't want, but I'm willing to poke at in the testing stage...but it does its thing by sending mail. And the mail is bouncing because the sender address is rejected. Is there any documentation about this problem? WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Edit #2: My Mongolian Hordes, let me show you them. I grepped for "postmaster@localhost", which is what it's sending as, in the relevant directories. You know how you change it? BY LOGGING IN AS A USER. WHICH YOU CAN'T CREATE.

I'm guessing that this is some degree of NetBSD pkgsrc Fail. I am guessing that there is some compile time option that lets you change this that I was unaware of (but I don't know because I haven't turned up any documentation talking about compile time options!). Either that, or the developers have their heads so far up their asses, they think that ISPs are accepting mail from external "localhost"s these days.

Edit #3: No, I have done a disservice to NetBSD. The Plone developers really, really think that's a reasonable default. What the fuck?

Edit #4: Okay, so, it automatically sets up an admin user with the same login combo as your Zope admin user. Nice of them to tell you that. The closest reference is "provided during the Plone install", which, thank you, it was not.