Allowing for an admin to add a user by the web interface

[augusto-herrmann]

The CKAN site admin should be able to add (invite) new users through the admin interface, even when new user self-registration is disabled. As described in ckan#1948.

[davidread]

An admin for a group or organization can "invite" new users to that group/org. Here's the PR: ckan/ckan#1178
See screenshot here: ckan/ckan#1723
A user is created with the priviledge and the invitee gets an email that invites them to click on a link and set their password: https://github.com/ckan/ckan/blob/master/ckan/lib/mailer.py#L118

Does that cover your need?

[augusto-herrmann]

For our particular and immediate needs, yes. And I didn't know that exists. Thank you!

However, the site admin should also be able to send general invites, no matter if registration is disabled or not, and not necessarily tied to a group or organization. I think this will be useful especially to smaller sites not using groups or organizations. The admin interface is also an intuitive place where people will look for user management, e.g. in a similar way to content management systems. Agree?

I think this could reuse some of the same code already present for the group/organization user invitation feature.

[davidread]

Sure, why not. Shouldn't be hard to adapt the code for this case. Feel free to do a PR.