[Exist-development] accounts vs. users?

[Joe W. <jo...@gm...>]

Hi all,

In eXist 1.5dev, the /db/system/security/ contains an "accounts"
folder, which contains documents whose root element is "account".  But
nearly everywhere else in eXist we refer to "users".  Using the
built-in functions as an indicator, we've got 17 references to "user"
and 2 to "account".  Searching the documentation, we have 159 hits for
"user*" and 16 for "account*".

I think the account is losing here, but whether we go with account or
user, can we just pick one and standardize on it -- especially in the
function names and in the /db/system/security folder & element names?

Thanks!
Joe

Users (17):

- http://demo.exist-db.org/exist/functions/securitymanager/add-user-ace
- http://demo.exist-db.org/exist/functions/securitymanager/find-users-by-name
- http://demo.exist-db.org/exist/functions/securitymanager/find-users-by-name-part
- http://demo.exist-db.org/exist/functions/securitymanager/find-users-by-username
- http://demo.exist-db.org/exist/functions/securitymanager/insert-user-ace
- http://demo.exist-db.org/exist/functions/session/set-current-user
- http://demo.exist-db.org/exist/functions/system/as-user
- http://demo.exist-db.org/exist/functions/xmldb/add-user-to-group
- http://demo.exist-db.org/exist/functions/xmldb/change-user
- http://demo.exist-db.org/exist/functions/xmldb/delete-user
- http://demo.exist-db.org/exist/functions/xmldb/exists-user
- http://demo.exist-db.org/exist/functions/xmldb/get-current-user
- http://demo.exist-db.org/exist/functions/xmldb/get-user-groups
- http://demo.exist-db.org/exist/functions/xmldb/get-user-home
- http://demo.exist-db.org/exist/functions/xmldb/get-user-primary-group
- http://demo.exist-db.org/exist/functions/xmldb/get-users
- http://demo.exist-db.org/exist/functions/xmldb/is-admin-user

Accounts (2):

- http://demo.exist-db.org/exist/functions/securitymanager/get-account-metadata
- http://demo.exist-db.org/exist/functions/securitymanager/get-account-metadata-keys