On 03/07/2011 12:54 PM, Gerritjan Koekkoek wrote: > Hi, > > By default users that register on a privat XWiki will be added as a document > with a XWiki.XWikiUsers object in the XWiki space > Also they become automatic member of the group XWiki.XWikiAllGroup. > > Is it possible to have all registered users (except the default system-usewrs > like admin) in a seperate space? > If you do so, will this cause problems when upgrading xwiki, which would be > my main driver to consider this. > > If people think this could or should be a best practise... > My opinion is that the XWiki space becomes cluttered with users > and also the requirement to have read access on many important system objects > in XWiki space > can conflict with some groups security policy on users and peoples privacy > > Would it be difficult to migrate users to a different space and keep all the > group memberships and authorizations and passwords intact?
http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-363 Currently, authentication does not work if the user is not in the XWiki space, but you are right, users should be in a different space by default. Using "XWiki" as a catch-all space is wrong, IMO. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
