Hi, the owner property of XWikiServerClass is a main wiki user that will have all rights in the virtual wiki your XWikiServer* document describe. Said another way, this will not create a new user but "give" a virtual wiki to an existing global user. 2008/1/23, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your EPEC Network ICT Team <[email protected]>:

[Ricardo Rodriguez] Your EPEC Network ICT Team wrote:

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Hi all,

I'm facing here some troubles while setting up virtual wikis by hand and would like to understand how this feature work.

In XWikiServerClass we add two properties: server and owner. The role and functioning of server is far clear. I also understand owner as a neat need: "the owner user of the Virtual XWiki; for example XWiki.Admin" as stated in http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Virtualization#HByhand, or "the user that should automatically have admin rights on your new virtual wiki (example XWiki.admin)" as in http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/FAQ/HowToSetupVirtualWikis.

But I've configured a number of virtual wikis here and I am not able to find their owners anywhere. Neither in the controller database, nor in their own databases.

Please, where these owner users are created? Thanks!

Ricardo

I've tried to delete all owner values in my virtual wikis. Even to create new virtual wikis with this property empty. I've not tried with a XWikiServerClass without it.

Please, could anybody confirm that the content of this property is no longer used in the set up of a virtual wiki?

I will modify accordingly the concerned pages in the documentation. I will also create the related JIRA issue.

Regards,

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2008/1/24, [Ricardo Rodriguez] <[email protected]>:

Thomas Mortagne wrote:

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Hi,

the owner property of XWikiServerClass is a main wiki user that will have all rights in the virtual wiki your XWikiServer* document describe. Said another way, this will not create a new user but "give" a virtual wiki to an existing global user.

Thus, please, what is the role of this owner user? I have tried by changing the content of this property and even by leaving it empty and these actions seem don't affect the access to virtual wikis. Thanks.

If you don't set a owner for a wiki, then nobody will have ALL the rights on the wiki that's all. The wiki will just have "normal" users with differents rights.

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2008/1/25, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your EPEC Network ICT Team <[email protected]>:

Thomas Mortagne wrote:

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If you don't set a owner for a wiki, then nobody will have ALL the rights on the wiki that's all. The wiki will just have "normal" users with differents rights.

Thanks, Thomas. But, please, allow me to post some more doubts. I do hope they are not stupid questions! I am trying to understand the login process to apply this knowledge to test the proposed LDAPAuthenticater.

1. What does mean that the owner has ALL the rights on the virtual wiki?

This user can do all he wants in the virtual wikis : read/write/delete any page, configure user/groups rights, etc. and he can't loose theses rights even if all rights are set as "deny" for him.

2. Will the owner been able to log in the virtual wiki without needing to create it? Or it is expected that it is created and then "inherit" complete control on the wiki? 3. May I consider the owner as a global user able to log in the virtual wiki/wikis he/she own and in the controller?

Technically this user could be any user in any wiki but in general it's a wiki controller/main wiki's user.

I know I must be able to find the answer by digging into the code. Please, give me some more time. Thanks for your patience.

Best,

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2008/1/28, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your EPEC Network ICT Team <[email protected]>:

Thomas Mortagne wrote:

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This user can do all he wants in the virtual wikis : read/write/delete any page, configure user/groups rights, etc. and he can't loose theses rights even if all rights are set as "deny" for him. Technically this user could be any user in any wiki but in general it's a wiki controller/main wiki's user.

Thanks Thomas. Do you consider suitable to add this information to http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Virtualization#HByhand ? Perhaps a #warning() ? Something like...

#warning(This user can do all he wants in the virtual wikis: read/write/delete any page, configure user/groups rights, etc. and he can't loose these rights even if all rights are set as "deny" for him. Technically this user could be any user in any wiki but in general it's a wiki controller/main wiki's user.)

Yes sure feel free to add it, if you need it, it has to be in the documentation ;)

If an user, let's say, XWiki.dummy exists in several virtual wikis and it is set up as owner for one of them, what syntax must I use to tell the controller what is the one I am referencing to? Thanks!

The real name of a user is wikiname:XWiki.dummy for example as main wiki is always "xwiki" to be sure it the XWiki.dummy user from main wiki you can set owner to "xwiki:XWiki.dummy".

Cheers,

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2008/1/28, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your EPEC Network ICT Team <[email protected]>:

Thomas Mortagne wrote: Yes sure feel free to add it, if you need it, it has to be in the documentation ;) The real name of a user is wikiname:XWiki.dummy for example as main wiki is always "xwiki" to be sure it the XWiki.dummy user from main wiki you can set owner to "xwiki:XWiki.dummy".

Done! Thanks.

Just two simple questions more:

Does this user has programming rights? Nope, as far as I see here. Only Admin user has programming rights on any virtual wiki.

Owner should have all the right, in fact the way it works when you ask for any rights to hasAccesLevel method it first test if user is superadmin/owner and return true if he is. By default Admin user don't have programming rights. "admin" level means all rights except "programming". To have "programming" right you have to explicitly give to Admin programming rights.

In the string xwiki:XWiki.dummy, are the name of the wiki and the name of the space optional? Are there defaults for these values? I mean... xwiki:XWiki.dummy = dummy ?

Not exactly: - the default wiki is the current wiki. If you are in the main wiki then it's "xwiki" - yes the default space is XWIKI

Thanks for your help!

Best,

Ricardo

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