Re: [Exist-open] passwords and groups not retained across restarts in trunk

[Dmitriy S. <sha...@gm...>]

Hello,

the commit http://exist.svn.sourceforge.net/exist/?rev=12690&view=rev
should fix both issues.

Let me know any result you get.

-- 
Cheers,

Dmitriy Shabanov

On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 13:24 +0500, Dmitriy Shabanov wrote:
> I on a way to commit fixes for group and after will test possible
> information lost after restart.
> 
> On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 06:10 +0545, Chris Tomlinson wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am puzzled about the security rework and I assume I am missing something.
> > 
> > It looks to me like changes that are made through the java client are not retained across restarts of eXist. I am testing trunk revision 12655 on Mac OS/X 10.6.4. I am using the java client in the build of trunk.
> > 
> > I have built the DB by restoring from a previous backup which includes a users.xml. After the restore the various users appear without their group associations in the users collection but I can not log in as any except the admin user. 
> > 
> > If I then follow a suggestion to use the java client and fetch and store back the users.xml then indeed the converter appears to run and I can then login via various users and passwords as would be expected UNTIL I restart the DB and then everything is fogotten.
> > 
> > Also if I add a group via the java client the group is not remembered.
> > 
> > If I manually add a group document to the groups collection then it appears in the list of possible groups but if I assign the group to a user via the java client and restart the DB then the assignment is not retained.
> > 
> > What is the correct procedure to migrate users and group assignments to the new scheme?
> > 
> > Also how is group membership represented in the new scheme please? I can't see how there is any association of groups with users like in the old scheme. There just seem to be a list of users with no group associations and a list of groups with no user associations.
> 
> It should be same, need to finish refactoring. The groups staff is last
> todo in the list.
>