• it uses the same password file as the 'forum' logbook
  
• it has a guest menu so that people without an account can read it
  
• the author and email are automatically taken from the password file
  
• a 'last revision' gets updated on each edit
  
• entries can only changed by the origial author ('restrict edit = 1')
  
• no email notification is sent
  

This is the configuration of the discussion forum on this server. Special 
things are:

- a guest menu so people without an account can read it
- an entry can only be edited by the original author ('restrict edit = 1')
- the author and email attributes are taken from the password file and
  cannot be changed by the author, thus to make sure who wrote a specific
  entry
- the email notification is sent to all people who registered for it, but
  their email address is not contained in the "To:" field 
  (Omit Email to = 1) so that they don't see each other's email address
  (for security reasons). For the 'from' field in the email, my address
  is used to that people can hit 'reply' on automatic notifications and
  they will reach me.
- The option "Format <attribute>" is used for a compact page display

This is a typical shift logbook, in this case for an accelerator. It
contains following features:

- public read access
- write access only for registered users
- typical attributes for shift logbook
- author and author email get automatically filled in
- no email notification

For those people who are running an elog instance at CERN and need to "hide" it behind the CERN Single Sign On (SSO), I've attached a working nginx.conf file to be used with OKD/PaaS at CERN.

Ideally, you can then configure the elog similar to the below, which will still allow people to register for individual elogs and be approved by an admin user. The usernames are then the CERN SSO usernames...

;
; admin
;
Admin user       = lgaffney
Password file    = /elog-nfs-2/ids_sso.passwd
Authentication   = Webserver, File
allow password change = 0
Login expiration = 0
Self register    = 3
 

This is the configuration of the 'Demo' logbook coming in the distribution, 
it contains only the most basic options.