User Management

Version 8.1 by EvelinaSlatineanu on 2008/03/06

User Management

Information

These instructions assume you're using the default Albatross skin.

Adding Users to a XWiki

  1. Login as an administrator.
  2. Click: "Administration" top right corner - this will open the main Administration page.
  3. Choose the tab: Users to bring up an overview of all users.
  4. Click on "Add new user" button to open the registration lightbox.
  5. Complete the user information and press "Save"

registeruser.jpg

Changing the password for a user

This section of the manual contains a feature that exists in the skin but the link to it has yet to be added.

  1. Login as an Administrator.
  2. Click: "Administration" top right corner - this will open the main Administration page.
  3. Choose the tab: Users to bring up an overview of all users.
  4. Click on the username of the user.
  5. To the URL of the page add the follwing extention: ?xpage=passwd . This will give you a URL looking something like
     http : // server/xwiki/bin/view/XWiki/A UserName?xpage=passwd
  6. Update the password.
  7. Click the Update button to save your change. (Don't forget to tell the user)

changepassword.jpg

Editing an existing user

  1. Login as an Administrator.
  2. Click: "Administration" top right corner - this will open the main Administration page.
  3. Choose the tab: Users & Groups - this will show you two links to the User administration and the group administration pages.
  4. Click the link to "the users page" - this will bring up an over view of all users ( in big wikis this can be a very large page ).
  5. Click the user you wish to edit.
  6. On the userpage click Edit in the top left corner - this will open a page editing view.
  7. Select the "Objects" tab (can be selected directly from the previous step above).
  8. Select the "XWiki.XWikiUsers" object and edit the entries (name, e-mail, etc...) according to your requirements.
  9. Click "Save and View" - to save the changes you have made.

Deleting a user

  1. Login as an Administrator.
  2. Use the search function (right hand side menu) to find all groups that the user is member of.
  3. Delete the user from each group he is member of.
  4. Finally delete the user by using the delete button (top left menu).

Get Connected