User Management
Version 8.1 by EvelinaSlatineanu on 2008/03/06
User Management
Adding Users to a XWiki
- Login as an administrator.
- Click: "Administration" top right corner - this will open the main Administration page.
- Choose the tab: Users to bring up an overview of all users.
- Click on "Add new user" button to open the registration lightbox.
- Complete the user information and press "Save"
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.
- Login as an Administrator.
- Click: "Administration" top right corner - this will open the main Administration page.
- Choose the tab: Users to bring up an overview of all users.
- Click on the username of the user.
- 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 - Update the password.
- Click the Update button to save your change. (Don't forget to tell the user)
Editing an existing user
- Login as an Administrator.
- Click: "Administration" top right corner - this will open the main Administration page.
- Choose the tab: Users & Groups - this will show you two links to the User administration and the group administration pages.
- 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 ).
- Click the user you wish to edit.
- On the userpage click Edit in the top left corner - this will open a page editing view.
- Select the "Objects" tab (can be selected directly from the previous step above).
- Select the "XWiki.XWikiUsers" object and edit the entries (name, e-mail, etc...) according to your requirements.
- Click "Save and View" - to save the changes you have made.
Deleting a user
- Login as an Administrator.
- Use the search function (right hand side menu) to find all groups that the user is member of.
- Delete the user from each group he is member of.
- Finally delete the user by using the delete button (top left menu).