People with the "Manager" role in Drupal can add user accounts to their sites. Here is how.

1. Go to Administer -> User Management -> Users, then click the "Add user" tab.
2. Fill in the information on that page and click "create new account."

By default, Drupal will try to check a user's login credentials against the Museum's LDAP system. If the user's name as it is entered does not match an account name in LDAP, Drupal will fall back to checking its own internal user database. Thus, you can add accounts for people both internal and external to the institution.

If you are adding an LDAP user, you still need to enter a password on the "Add user" page ... you should pick a secure password, but it will not be used. You should not select "Notify user of new account," as this will cause Drupal to send a message with the dummy password that you just typed. This will cause an authentication failure when LDAP authentication is attempted.

Finally, if on the account's Edit page you see a tab named "Personal Information," you should go there and add the user's full name in the Display Name field.

Alternative method

This method only works for users who already have LDAP accounts at the AMNH.

These are the instructions for the user who needs the new account:

1. Create a new account in your department's site by logging in to it using your LDAP user name and password. To do so, browse to /user/login under your department's website and fill in the user name and password. The user name is the name part of your email address. Use the same password that you use for email. (Do not select the "create new account" tab. Select the "log in" tab of the login page. An account is automatically created when you log in for the first time via LDAP.)
2. Once logged in, you will encounter a page with a tab that says "edit," which, when clicked, will display another page that has a "Personal Information" tab. Click on that, and then enter your full name in the "Display Name" field.
3. After that, you are done. Contact your departmental site's manager to be set up with the particular privileges that you will need for creating your content.