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

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

> I choose 'account', because ... That question very complicated ...
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_(computing)
> "...A user's account allows a user to authenticate to system services and be
> granted authorization to access them;..."
> Account without authentication is not a user (or user account, aka subject
> @internal API). Note that account can used not just human.
> I vote for 'account', because there is no "create wiki user", but a lot of
> "create wiki account" :-)
> If we go 'user' way, then it should be 'user account' then.

Dmitriy makes a good case :-)


>> > - 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

Actually some of these are deprecated in favour of the newer
securitymanager module functions, and others will be replaced with
more modern functions.