Initial setup of Nepenthes for administrators
This section will guide you through some basic recommendations for setting up your Nepenthes instance as a system administrator and for preparing it for its users. For the backend setup and initial technical configurations please have a look at the respective section in the installation guide.
Before adding users we recommend to check and configure the following topics:
| Topic | What to set up |
|---|---|
| Language settings | Set up available languages |
| User settings | Default user settings, user deletion, user consent |
| Roles and permissions | What users can do (Roles) and the permissions for those roles |
| User groups | Create groups that are linked to projects, with a role, and users |
| Avatars | Allow users to upload their photo or Gravatar |
| Calendars and dates | Default working days and time and date formats |
| General settings | Set host name, protocol and welcome text |
| Authentication | Set up authentication methods for users |
| Announcements | Set an announcement to be shown to users on login |
| Start page | Set up the home page, shown after login |
| Configure outbound emails | Set up SMTP on the server to send email |
| Configure incoming emails | Receiving email by the server |