DW always been based on the user who execute it except for a special use case which is guest user.
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:36 AM, vinc...@massol.net <vinc...@massol.net> wrote: > > Actually I'll try to test this today locally to see if I can reproduce. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > On 3 Feb 2014 at 11:26:53, vinc...@massol.net > (vinc...@massol.net(mailto:vinc...@massol.net)) wrote: > >> >> >> On 3 Feb 2014 at 11:16:15, Denis Gervalle >> (d...@softec.lu(mailto:d...@softec.lu)) wrote: >> >> > On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:56 AM, vinc...@massol.net wrote: >> > >> > > Hi guys, >> > > >> > > I've just realized that on farm wiki like myxwiki.org we have an >> > > important issue when we upgrade the WAR. >> > > >> > > When local admins log on their wiki they get the DW, they follow it and >> > > then they find their wiki is broken in several places: >> > > - search/search suggest not working >> > > - activity stream stays empty >> > > - reset password feature doesn't work >> > > - etc >> > > >> > > The problem is that the local admin users do not have PR on subwikis and >> > > since we have several pages requiring them, this breaks their upgrades. >> > > >> > >> > Isn't it a bug ? Shouldn't any user having access to the DW be able to >> > execute it properly, disregarding its own rights ? >> > Is there a recent change that cause the DW to make its operation based on >> > the current user, that was not there before ? >> > I had always thought that the DW will keep package content author in place, >> > like any other meta. >> > Is this wrong ? >> >> I hope I'm wrong :) I've based my mail on what I saw on a subwiki I own on >> myxwiki.org which I had upgraded using a local users and where I saw that >> all features that were requiring PR were broken. Now myxwiki.org is on 5.2 >> so this was the DW of 5.2. Maybe we fixed/changed something after that. >> >> Would be interesting to retest if someone has a subwiki on myxwiki.org that >> has not been migrated. >> >> I guess we could also upgrade myxwiki.org to 5.4RC1 and retest it and at the >> same time try to find issues that could be fixed either quickly for 5.4 >> final or for 5.4.1. I wanted to wait for 5.4 final before upgrading >> myxwiki.org but if we think this issue shouldn't exist we might want to >> upgrade sooner. >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> >> > > This is a pretty serious problem since they have no way of doing a proper >> > > upgrade and this doesn't do good advertising for xwiki... >> > > >> > > What can we do in the short term (for 5.4.1 for example since I believe >> > > this is something really urgent to fix)? >> > > >> > > Only solution I can think of (which should be pretty quick) would be to >> > > look at all pages requiring PR in our default XE XAR package and replace >> > > those with specific API calls. >> > >> > >> > > WDYT? >> > > >> > > Thanks >> > > -Vincent >> > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > devs@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
