[xwiki-users] Deleting admin user blocks execution of some pages
Due to another issue, I had to recreate some users (including the one I had been using as the administrator). Instead of just hiding the old users, I decided to delete them. It was a mistake to delete the old admin user because, now, scripts that were last modified by that user will not execute (even by the new admin user). The new admin user needs make some new modification to the script in order to execute it. Is there a mechanism by which I could get a list of all the scripts that were last modified by that old user so that I could go in and clean up this problem at one go instead of one by one as I stumble onto those pages? Is there another workaround a person can use when they shoot themselves in the foot like this? Note that I tried restoring the old admin user from the deleted documents. He then appears in the user directory as expected. But the scripts will still not execute. So it appears that restoring a user has the effect of creating a new user with the same attributes as the old one instead of actually recreating the old user. Could this be considered an issue (defect or improvement) worthy of recording in JIRA? Mark -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Deleting-admin-user-blocks-execution-of-so... Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Mark Sack <[email protected]> wrote:
Due to another issue, I had to recreate some users (including the one I had been using as the administrator). Instead of just hiding the old users, I decided to delete them. It was a mistake to delete the old admin user because, now, scripts that were last modified by that user will not execute (even by the new admin user). The new admin user needs make some new modification to the script in order to execute it.
Is there a mechanism by which I could get a list of all the scripts that were last modified by that old user so that I could go in and clean up this problem at one go instead of one by one as I stumble onto those pages? Is there another workaround a person can use when they shoot themselves in the foot like this?
Note that I tried restoring the old admin user from the deleted documents. He then appears in the user directory as expected. But the scripts will still not execute. So it appears that restoring a user has the effect of creating a new user with the same attributes as the old one instead of actually recreating the old user. Could this be considered an issue (defect or improvement) worthy of recording in JIRA?
Its not exactly that. It does recreate your user exactly as it was. But restoring a the user does not automatically add it in groups since this information is not stored in the user profile.
Mark
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Mark, You could try using the following extensions: List Deleted Content Author Users http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/List+Deleted+Content+Au thor+Users Change Content Author http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Change+Content+Author They have helped me in the past to clean up deleted users. Charlie -----Original Message----- From: users [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Mortagne Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 10:28 AM To: XWiki Users <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Deleting admin user blocks execution of some pages On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Mark Sack <[email protected]> wrote:
Due to another issue, I had to recreate some users (including the one I had been using as the administrator). Instead of just hiding the old users, I decided to delete them. It was a mistake to delete the old admin user because, now, scripts that were last modified by that user will not execute (even by the new admin user). The new admin user needs make some new modification to the script in order to execute it.
Is there a mechanism by which I could get a list of all the scripts that were last modified by that old user so that I could go in and clean up this problem at one go instead of one by one as I stumble onto those pages? Is there another workaround a person can use when they shoot themselves in the foot like this?
Note that I tried restoring the old admin user from the deleted documents. He then appears in the user directory as expected. But the scripts will still not execute. So it appears that restoring a user has the effect of creating a new user with the same attributes as the old one instead of actually recreating the old user. Could this be considered an issue (defect or improvement) worthy of recording in JIRA?
Its not exactly that. It does recreate your user exactly as it was. But restoring a the user does not automatically add it in groups since this information is not stored in the user profile.
Mark
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