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<h1 id="registry-installation">Registry Installation</h1>
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<h2 id="whats-it-for">What's it for?</h2>
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<p>The Metacat Registry provides an easy mechanism to create and
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you need very low barriers to creating simple EML, or have users
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unable to use Morpho. The LDAP account management interface is
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useful if you are authenticating users against LDAP, and need to
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provide a basic mechanism for managing user accounts.</p>
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<p>The Registry can be installed on any machine Metacat runs on,
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recommended installation platform, and the instructions assume
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