On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 16:18, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Feb 23, 2012, at 4:02 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:
>
> > Right now on an empty wiki you have all the rights except "delete"
> > (and register).
> >
> > So this means that you have "admin" right but you don't have "delete"
> rights...
> >
> > This does not make much sense and I anyway I don't see why delete has
> > this special rule.
>
>
> > Any idea ?
>

Because defaulting allow for delete on the initial template of XE will
allow anyone to delete anything.
We had never set right on delete explicitly.


> >
> > Here is my +1 to remove the special handling of "delete" default right.
>

-1 to change that since it will open hole in many existing wikis.


> I don't know if there was any good reason but I can't see it.
>

There is probably no good reason before it was implemented this way.


> So +1 to have delete rights in an empty wiki when not logged in.
>
> I've created http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-7581
>

+0 for this, simply because it would be difficult and tricky to do in the
current implementation.
After we agree on merging the new experimental security module and I got
some time to document it, I will surely open a discussion on how to evolve
the security rights, and why the empty wiki state cause other not so
pleasant issue. It is to early for now.


> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
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