Re: [xwiki-users] Manipulate users and groups via REST-API

Hello! thank you for your answer. Maybe I should also tell you what the goal is. Maybe there is a better way to do this: We have created an Intranet-User Management. This way our department heads (or any other person having the necessary rights) can manage their users them self so the it-dep doesn't need to be involved. Typically the department head creates a new user and checks all services which should be available to the new user. Normally this would be "create user in AD", dispatch phone number and add user to sip-group, add SharePoint account.... and so on. For various reasons we do not have a SSO solution and therefore cannot simple connect all services. So in order to simulate something like a SSO we want our users to authenticate against our intranet site and then they can decide where to go next. Normally we then just load the service into an iFrame and pass along the authentication needed. We would like to add xwiki to this services. Therefore we need to be able to create accounts and assign user-rights to them. The application behind all this is mostly written in Java and JavaScript. We don't send any files except the Json part. And yes we need to authenticate given a username and a password. If there are any other possible solutions for this scenario I would be more then happy to look into them. Thanks, Chris ________________________________________ From: users <users-bounces(a)xwiki.org> on behalf of Jean SIMARD <jean.simard(a)xwiki.com> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 10:55 AM To: XWiki Users Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Manipulate users and groups via REST-API Hi Chris, I've already played with the REST API to upload XAR, never to manipulate list of users. It worked pretty well for my simple use but indeed, it took me a bit of time to figure out how it work. Maybe you could answer the following answers if you want a bit of help: - What tool are you using to send your REST request (from Java, cURL, other)? - What it looks like (the code, the cURL command)? - What are the files you send with if there is any? - Do you send authentication credentials in the request? Hope this helps. On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 05:43:32PM +0000, lists(a)yhmail.de wrote: -- Jean Simard jean.simard(a)xwiki.com Research engineer at XWiki SAS http://www.xwiki.com Committer on the XWiki.org project http://www.xwiki.org _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users