Hi devs, I'm currently working on documents we create from core/plugins or those we bundle in XARs (xwiki/2.0 conversion, filling title field, etc). I'd like to take advantage of this to discuss about the author we use in those documents. We currently have 2 different behaviors: - classes created from the core usually have their author set to "" - classes created from plugins (skinx, scheduler, etc) or bundled in our XARs usually have their author set to "XWiki.Admin" It lacks consistency and it can lead to security issues. If for some reason the administrator of a wiki decide to delete the XWiki.Admin account some can re-create it and gain the authorship -- thus the right to delete -- plenty of XE documents. We can decide to: 1) Only tackle the consistency problem and use "XWiki.Admin" everywhere 2) Solve the 2 problems by extending core policy to all our documents, ie. use "" everywhere 3) Solve the 2 problems by using a special username everywhere, like "System". Here's my +1 for 3), rationale: - 1) is only a quick fix and core shouldn't be aware of a user that comes with XE, - 2) is fine except that not having an author seems unnatural from a user POV. - In the future we could decide to have special handler for the "System" user, like pointing to a page explaining that it is a pseudo-user when we use $xwiki.getLocalUserName("System").

Hi devs, I'm currently working on documents we create from core/plugins or those we bundle in XARs (xwiki/2.0 conversion, filling title field, etc). I'd like to take advantage of this to discuss about the author we use in those documents. We currently have 2 different behaviors: - classes created from the core usually have their author set to "" - classes created from plugins (skinx, scheduler, etc) or bundled in our XARs usually have their author set to "XWiki.Admin" It lacks consistency and it can lead to security issues. If for some reason the administrator of a wiki decide to delete the XWiki.Admin account some can re-create it and gain the authorship -- thus the right to delete -- plenty of XE documents. We can decide to: 1) Only tackle the consistency problem and use "XWiki.Admin" everywhere 2) Solve the 2 problems by extending core policy to all our documents, ie. use "" everywhere 3) Solve the 2 problems by using a special username everywhere, like "System". Here's my +1 for 3), rationale: - 1) is only a quick fix and core shouldn't be aware of a user that comes with XE, - 2) is fine except that not having an author seems unnatural from a user POV. - In the future we could decide to have special handler for the "System" user, like pointing to a page explaining that it is a pseudo-user when we use $xwiki.getLocalUserName("System"). JV. _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs