[Koha] Use and setting of userid in borrowers table

[Van Eijk, Marcel]

Yesterday, I installed Koha which I hope to be using for our small
internal library. I set it up in such a way that it will use cookie
authentication, thus using the borrowers table. I was wondering the
following:

1. Is it possible to set the userid and password from the web interface;
I'd rather not use the card barcode to login to the system.

2. I saw that one can set different flags for each use to allow for access
to different parts of the intranet interface. It seems, howver that one
needs super librarian status to login anyway. Is this a bug, or am I doing
something wrong?

I hope somebody can help me.

Cheers,

Marcel