Backtalk Administration Guide:

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1. Log into the administration account

   See the logging in instructions.

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2. Goto the conference edit page.

   There is a link on the administration page labelled "Edit a Conference". Click on this.

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3. Specify the conference to be edited.

   You will be shown a form one box. Enter the name of the conference that you want to edit here and kill the button labeled "Edit It".

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4. Specify the new fairwitnesses.

   The form that comes up next will include a textbox containing the current list of fairwitnesses. Edit this. You can list more than one fairwitness, so long as the names are separated by commas (but not spaces).

   When you are done, click on the "Change Settings" button.

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Changing Fair-Witnesses From Unix:

To change the fairwitnesses of a Backtalk conference, follow the following steps. (The checkboxes below perform no function - they are just for your convenience.)

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1. Log onto the Unix conference administration account.

   This is the account that owns all the conference files and the backtalk program itself.

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2. change directory to conference directory

   Each conference has a directory where all its files are kept. There is a pointer to this directory in the conflist file. The location of the conflist file depends on how your system is configured.

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3. Edit the conference config file

   Inside the conference directory, you will find (among other things) a file named config. This is the file we need to edit to change the conference fairwitnesses. A typical config file looks like this:

       !<pc02>
       .martian1.cf
       0
       marvin,carter
   

   (There may be some additional lines at the end.) The fourth line of this tells us the names of the current fairwitnesses of the conference. All we need to do to change the fairwitnesses is edit this line. It should just be a list of the Backtalk login names of the users who are to be fairwitnesses. If there is more than one, their names should be separated by commas (but no spaces). There should always be at least one fairwitness.