matrix / element user management

[terrygogo]

Hi,
A few question please.
Just installed matrix and element.

Where do I manage users in matrix/element? When I installed it I picked 'manage via app not cloudron.
Where is the dashboard / backend?

Also how do I stop 'open public registrations'?

Also is there matrix / element forum?

Many thanks

[girish]

@terrygogo Element is a frontend and Synapse is the backend. Element will follow whatever authentication mechanism you setup in Synapse.

On Cloudron, when you install synapse, there are 2 ways to set it up:

• Allow users from Cloudron - With this, external registration is disabled. Just add users to Cloudron and then can login to Element.

• Let the app manage users - With this ,external registration is enabled by default. If you want to disable it later, you have to comment out enable_registration in the config - https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/develop/docs/sample_config.yaml#L1046

[stantropics]

I am using the matrix app with cloudron user mangement. However, I would like to add some rather technical users (bots) that I do not want to add as "real" cloudron users.

I did this in synapse with:

/bin/matrix-synapse-register-user <path to homeserver.yaml> http://localhost:8008

The user seems to be added correctly, but cannot login using e.g. riot. Does anybody know if it is not possible to add users manually?

[girish]

@stantropics did you figure this one out?

[stantropics]

Hi @girish, thanks for getting back to this. I have indeed figured out how to make this work.

1. Add a user as described before or use the synapse API:

@stantropics said in matrix / element user management:

/bin/matrix-synapse-register-user <path to homeserver.yaml> http://localhost:8008

2. If you are having problems setting a password I figured out it is not a good idea to manipulate the database, instead use the synapse API.

3. Until this point manually created users cannot login, you need to chage the config in homeserver.yaml as follows:

password_config:
  enabled: true
  localdb_enabled: true

localdb_enabled is false by default. Change it to true and manually added users can login.