Re: [Hypercontent-users] Add New users

[Alex V. <al...@bi...>]

On Nov 15, 2006, at 6:22 PM, tom tom wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If someone decides to keep the existing login
> mechanism instead of casifying the HC. How can we do
> the following.
>
> How can we add new users to the HC. Also how can we
> change the passwords of the existing users (e.g.
> author)

User files are stored in the bootstrap repository under the pattern / 
users/*/*/*/user.xml, broken up by the first two letters as such:

/users/a/ad/admin/user.xml

where admin is the username.  You can add them in the GUI by going to

http://localhost:8080/users/?mode=interactive

Click or add the first letter, then first two letters, then the third  
directory must exactly match the username.

While you're editing the user.xml file, you can use the password  
editor to create a new password.  There is no way to retrieve the  
password - it is stored as a hash in the XML file.  When user files  
are automatically created (e.g. with CAS login), the user is granted  
permission to edit their own file (and thus their email and  
password), but if you create the files manually you also have to  
manually grant them write permission on their user file (if they  
should be able to change their password or email).


>
>
> Need to know the following as well
>
> If a approver login to the HC and clicks right top
> corner to update his details ( e.g email address).
>
> Shouldnt he gets an email when the author do some
> change to a existing file. (assume author is not in
> the approve role).
>
> I changed the smtp properties, doent have any ldap
> configuration, but I was under the impression still it
> should work as he has updated his profile.
>
> I did not change approvals.xml as it should send mail
> to all the members of the approval group.
>

Check the log for errors, and check the approval workflow screen  
which might show some errors on the task - click more details a  
couple of times to potentially get a stack trace.

If you'd like to send your groups and permissions xml files I'll have  
a look at them as well.

Cheers,
	Alex