Re: [Exist-development] accounts vs. users?

[Adam R. <ad...@ex...>]

Internally it gets even more complicated, we have Accounts and
Subjects, both are different but often used interchangeably with the
term 'User'. Basically a Subject is an authenticated Account.

I have some ideas to simplify all this in the future, and yes I would
like to see consistency. Externally I think the term 'User' is most
prevalent and should probably be standardised upon...

On 14 September 2011 21:31, Joe Wicentowski <jo...@gm...> wrote:
> 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
>
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