8 Jan
2014
8 Jan
'14
12:13 p.m.
Hi Peter,
On 8 Jan 2014 at 11:42:55, Peter John Acklam
(pjacklam@gmail.com(mailto://pjacklam@gmail.com)) wrote:
I wanted a metawiki space, so as the "Admin"
user, I created the "XWiki"
space. Realizing that we already had a "Wiki" space, I deleted the
"XWiki"
space. The deletion to surprisinly long time, so I got suspicious and hit
"Cancel". I didn't think much of it until a few days later, when I was no
longer able to log in as "Admin". That was when I remembered that the
"XWiki" space is special. I had deleted a lot more than just a newly
created empty space.
Now I am no longer allowed to log in as "Admin" or "superadmin".
Both
accounts worked before, but now both give me the error message "Invalid
credentials". Apparently, all users can log in with their ordinary user
account, but with no admin account I can no longer re-import the XWiki
pages from the XAR file.
The "superadmin" account was enabled when I upgraded to the current XWiki
5.2. It was tested and working, but not any longer.
How on earth to I get around this?
The Admin user is located in the page XWiki.Admin so if you removed the XWiki space you
probably removed that user too :)
Now I’ve tried it locally too and I can tell you that using the superadmin user works fine
for me even with the full XWiki space removed.
I noticed something strange though. I deleted the XWiki space and then tried to go to the
wiki home and I got a stack trace on screen. Then I restarted XWiki and I was able to view
the home page and I was able to log in as superadmin.
As as side note, I am very surprised that 1) I was
able to create the
"XWiki" space, just as any other space, and 2) that I was able to delete
the "XWiki" space with no notification about this space being vital to
XWiki.
It’s not completely vital. I did remove the full XWiki space and my xwiki still shows up
and I can log in with superadmin and edit pages. Of course I’m missing a few things like
all XWiki preferences which were in XWiki.XWikiPreferences so I’m back to defaults (no
Panels displayed on the side for example).
Now I do agree that we need to make it harder for a user to delete an existing space by
error, by asking for confirmation.
We also need to make it easier to rollback a full space (ATM you have to rollback each doc
one by one).
There are existing JIRA issues for these 2 points, someone just need to find the time to
implement them…
Would that be enough in your opinion?
Any help or pointers are highly appreciated.
Provided you don’t have any backup, the first thing to do is to get you be able to log in
as superadmin.
Make sure you’re using the user “superadmin” and the right password (as defined in
xwiki.cfg). If it doesn’t work, please check the xwiki logs to see if there are any error
and let us know.
Thanks
-Vincent
Kind regards,
Peter John Acklam