Management of user accounts

This page lists ways for the management of MoinMoin user accounts.

Create and delete user accounts

• HelpOnUserHandling

  • disable user account (as SuperUser)

  • remove user account (delete files)
  • Sharing user accounts in wiki farms (configuration)

• HelpOnMoinCommand

  • create / disable via shell command in MoinMoin >= 1.5:

  • example: moin --config-dir=/config/directory --wiki-url=wiki.example.org/ account create

• MacroMarket/1.6_AdminTools for 1.6 or MacroMarket/AdminTools for 1.5

  • ManageUsers.py macro for SuperUsers to view and delete user accounts (extension for native macro SystemAdmin)

• ScriptMarket/UserCreationTool

  • external Python script for the creation of multiple user accounts (MoinMoin version ?)

  • uses information from a wiki page (list or dictionary)

• CreateMultipleUserProfiles

  • external Python script for the creation of multiple user accounts (MoinMoin 1.2)

  • uses LDAP information

• FeatureRequests/DisableUserCreation

  • only the admin should be able to create users, or no users should be created at all

  • different solutions for MoinMoin 1.5, 1.6, 1.7

User authentication / rights

• HelpOnAuthentication

  • How Authentication works with MoinMoin

• HelpOnSessions

  • How sessions work in MoinMoin

• AuthMarket

  • plugins, patches, notes for special effects regarding authentication

• HelpOnAccessControlLists

  • how to manage access to pages with ACLs

• HelpOnAutoAdmin

  • give some users or user groups admin rights on some pages

• HelpOnSuperUser

  • users with special rights

Informations about users

• MacroMarket/UserList

  • this macro for MoinMoin 1.2 creates a list of all known users

• MacroMarket/UserList2

  • this macro for MoinMoin >= 1.3 creates a list of all known users

• ScriptMarket/UserStatsScript

  • Unix shell script, prints statistics about the count of active users to stdout

• MacroMarket/1.6_AdminTools for 1.6 or MacroMarket/AdminTools for 1.5

  • macro collection: AllPagesWithACL, LostSoulsInGroups, ManageUsers (see above in create/delete section), WikiLog

• ActionMarket/Subscribers for 1.1 and 1.6

  • shows subscribers to a page and a "mailto"-link for all of them

User preferences

• HelpOnConfiguration/UserPreferences

  • predefine, disable or remove several options on the UserPreferences page

• MoinMoinPatch/GenericUserProfileLists

  • allow saving any list attributes of the user object in the user preferences file

  • patches the user profile load and save code in user.py of MoinMoin 1.6 to be able to save and load any list

Email related

• HelpOnConfiguration/EmailSupport

  • enable support for outgoing mails

• HelpOnSubscribing

• MoinMoinPatch/SubscribeAndUnsubscribeUsers

  • allows the admin to unsubscribe Users via the web interface

  • patches for MoinMoin 1.5, 1.6

• FeatureRequests/SubscribeUser

  • Subscribe other users via a list for current page.

  • patch for SubscribeUser.py included (MoinMoin version ?)

Other purposes

• MacroMarket/ConditionalText for MoinMoin 1.5

  • shows some text only for logged in users