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authorEugen Rochko <eugen@zeonfederated.com>2017-02-13 20:41:48 +0100
committerEugen Rochko <eugen@zeonfederated.com>2017-02-13 20:42:02 +0100
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Add rake task for making someone into an admin
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 Administration guide
-=================
+====================
 
 So, you have a working Mastodon instance... now what?
 
+## Turning into an admin
+
+The following rake task:
+
+    rails mastodon:make_admin USERNAME=alice
+
+Would turn the local user "alice" into an admin.
+
 ## Administration web interface
 
 A user that is designated as `admin = TRUE` in the database is able to access a suite of administration tools:
@@ -20,9 +28,10 @@ Your site settings are stored in the `settings` database table, and editable thr
 
 You are able to set the following settings:
 
+- Site title
 - Contact username
 - Contact email
 - Site description
 - Site extended description
 
-You may wish to use the extended description (shown at https://yourmastodon.instance/about/more ) to display content guidelines or a user agreement (see https://mastodon.social/about/more for an example).
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+You may wish to use the extended description (shown at https://yourmastodon.instance/about/more ) to display content guidelines or a user agreement (see https://mastodon.social/about/more for an example).