Hi, 2010/9/10 [Ricardo Rodriguez] eBioTIC. <ricardo.rodrig...@ebiotic.net>
> Hi Maxime, > > > First of all, allow me what could be a silly question: *virtual wiki* > and *subwiki* are used as synonyms? Local and main wiki are also used > indistinctly? I think Local is used as "relative" concept both in the > main and virtual wikis to express that an user or a group is defined in > its database. Thus, I think it will be better to use *main wiki* for the > "master", even though I prefer the the old wary: the controller, and > *virtual wikis* for any other wiki in the farm. In fact sub wiki could > be not appropriate for a number or reasons. For instance, here we have > some virtual wikis that are far from being considered as a sub-group of > the controller. > > In brief: I would like to propose to use *controller* and *virtual > wikis* as the advised way of calling both type of wikis. WDYT? Thanks! > In my humble opinion, a "virtual wiki" is a xwiki installation that enables to manage a farm of wikis. See http://manager.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Installation *Set your wiki as "virtual" to allow multiple wikis* A farm is composed of a "main wiki" (the controller) and a lot of "wikis". Theses terms seem to constitute the "official" vocabulary of the xwiki product. In my words, a sub-wiki is just a simple wiki of the farm. The words "Local" and "Global" apply to users and groups. Global means : "present in the main wiki", Local means : "present in a wiki (not the main one)" > > But in fact, an admin can create a local user (not connected to the LDAP) > in > > a subwiki. It is what I have done only to test the Meta-G feature. > > If you know how to prevent local user creation, I'm interested. > > > > No idea, sorry. I've not faced this kind of challenges yet. What I > understand here is that you want to have virtual wikis administrators > that won't be able to create local users, am I right? This will be > welcome also here. > Yes exactly. > > More about my configuration : > > Users don't have the right to read the main wiki (except their profil > page, > > of course). > > Only users are imported from the LDAP, the groups are xwiki groups. > > Here groups in the directory service are used for many other different > things. So, for us, groups in the farm and in the directory service must > be synchronized. In fact, this is a feature we are planning to develop. > Well, patronize its development! I am far from being able to develop > such a thing! Now, users and groups can be synchronized with directory > service contains, but that is not true the other way round. For > instance: if an user changes its telephone number in the his/her wiki > profile, the change won't propagate to the directory. > > Please, why do you use XWiki groups? > > > The > > principle to manage the rights of a subwiki is that the subwiki > > administrator creates local group and inserts global users in it. > > > > I get your point, but as stated before, groups for us have a lot of > different uses in the directory service. I've not tried yet how LDAP > properties set at virtual wiki level behave. I will keep this thread, or > created new ones if required, updated about this issue. > > BTW, does global user selector work for you when editing local groups in > virtual wikis? It doesn't show any result for me. > > It doesn't show any result for me too, this is why I created the issue XAADMINISTRATION-167. Regards, Maxime _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
