Customizing New-User-Account Form

Make certain fields in the Add New User form mandatory.

You can customize the New User Account form by marking certain fields required (Accounts > Add Account). For example, if you marked the option Password expires required, that field becomes required when creating a user.

Stop Aspera^® Faspex™
In a Terminal or Command Prompt, execute the command to stop Aspera Faspex:
```
asctl faspex:stop
```
Open Faspex.yml with a text editor
Locate Faspex.yml in the following path:
```
/opt/aspera/faspex/config/faspex.yml
```
Before editing Faspex.yml, create a backup. Open it with a text editor:

Add required-field parameters

The following fields can be marked as required:

Password expires: ...
Account expires: ...
Allowed IP addresses for login
Allowed IP addresses for download
Allowed IP addresses for upload

Add the following parameters in the file. When a required field is specified, the option is checked and grayed-out; When a required field with default value is specified, a default value is presented in the option:

Parameter	Description
RequireUserPasswordExpires: yes	Make "Password expires" required. A value is required.
RequireUserAccountExpires: yes	Make "Account expires" required. A value is required.
RequireUserDescription: yes	Make "description" required.
RequireUserDescriptionWithDefault: "Default_value"	Make "description" required, and insert default value.
RequireUserAllowedIpAddressesForLogin: yes	Make "Allowed IP addresses for login" required.
RequireUserAllowedIpAddressesForLoginWithDefault: "Default_value"	Make "Allowed IP addresses for login" required, and insert default value.
RequireUserAllowedIpAddressesForDownload: yes	Make "Allowed IP addresses for download" required.
RequireUserAllowedIpAddressesForDownloadWithDefault: "Default_value"	Make "Allowed IP addresses for download" required, and insert default value.
RequireUserAllowedIpAddressesForUpload: yes	Make "Allowed IP addresses for upload" required.
RequireUserAllowedIpAddressesForUploadWithDefault: "Default_value"	Make "Allowed IP addresses for upload" required, and insert default value.

For example, to make "Account expires" required, and "Allowed IP addresses for download" required with default value "10.0.*", add the following lines in Faspex.yml:

 ...
 RequireUserAccountExpires: yes
 RequireUserAllowedIpAddressesForDownloadWithDefault: "10.0.*"

Start Aspera Faspex
In a Terminal or Command Prompt, execute the command to start Aspera Faspex with the new setting:
```
asctl faspex:start
```

When making fields required, log in Aspera Faspex with admin account and go to Accounts > Add Account > Faspex User. Red asterisks should appear near the fields that have been marked as required. Creating a user without specifying values for these fields should result in an error message to that effect.