How do users get researcher/admin access?

[lkeegan]

One suggestion:

• all users sign up for a normal user account initially
• researchers then send an email asking for access to the data
  • if granted, an admin clicks on the user in the admin interface and enables the researcher flag
• adding an admin (which should a very limited set of people as they can modify.delete all content!)
  • could similarly be done via the admin interface by an existing admin
  • or this could be only done directly via editing the users database to make it less convenient (and hence less likely to accidently make a user into an admin by accident)

[lkeegan]

They should write an email asking for data access, and then if allowed:

• an admin promotes the user to a researcher

This then results in:

• a unique code is generated for this researcher & displayed to the admin (and in the user's account info page)
• users when they register can optionally enter this code to provide their data to that researcher