On Mar 27, 2009, at 3:48 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:

> Vincent Massol wrote:
>> Hi Hel,
>>
>> On Mar 27, 2009, at 2:28 PM, hel-o wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> is there a special reason for that,
>>
>> Is this is for security issues since one wiki in a farm could  
>> endanger
>> all the wikis in the farm very easily since a local user would get
>> access to a powerful API.
>
> To be more detailed, a user with programming rights has absolute  
> access
> on the whole server (using Groovy), and in a public farm if a wiki  
> admin
> gives himself programming rights, he can seriously affect the entire
> server. Imagine if somebody could do anything on the whole Blogspot  
> farm...
>
>>> and is it planned for a future release to have the possibility to
>>> have programming rights in a virtual wiki?
>>
>> No.
>
> It depends. There is an issue on jira.xwiki.org about having an option
> for this, defaulting to false, but there's no requirement for this.
> Programming rights are really a dangerous thing, I don't see any  
> need to
> grant them to anybody except one global account that decides what is  
> safe.

Indeed, if you need programming rights for a given api maybe a better  
way would be to provide that API without programming rights (if it's  
safe).
What's your use case?

Thanks
-Vincent

>>>
>>> hel.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hel-o,
>>>
>>> Only users registered on the main wiki can be granted programming
>>> access
>>> level. But they can save pages with the programming rights on sub
>>> wikis.
>>>
>>> Jerome.
>>>
>>> hel-o wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> is there a way to give programming rights to a user in a virtual
>>>> wiki?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> hel.
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