Changeset 12917

Timestamp:

8 May 2015, 12:38:40 (10 years ago)

Author:

Henrik Bettermann

Message:

Finalize users section.

File:

• main/waeup.kofa/trunk/docs/source/userdocs/users.rst (modified) (4 diffs)

main/waeup.kofa/trunk/docs/source/userdocs/users.rst

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 .. _users:
 
-Users :sup:`in progress`
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+Users
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-Kofa distinguishes between four types of users: anonymous users, applicants, students, portal officers/managers and the zope manager. Kofa distinguishes further between authenticated and unauthenticated users and between users with and without account object.
+Kofa distinguishes between four types of users: anonymous users, applicants, students, portal officers/managers and the Zope manager. Kofa distinguishes further between authenticated and unauthenticated users and between users with and without account object.
 
-The user authentication process in Kofa is quite complex. Briefly and in simple terms, a so-called Authenticator validates the credentials provided via the login form, fetches the matching account object, extracts the account data and finally leads to the creation of a temporary user object, a so-called principal. Kofa principals provide `name`, `title, `email`, `phone`, `public_name` and `user_type` attributes.
+The user authentication process in Kofa is quite complex. Briefly and in simple terms, a so-called authenticator (plugin) validates the credentials provided via the login form, fetches the matching account object, extracts the account data and finally leads to the creation of a temporary user object, a so-called principal. Kofa principals provide `name`, `title`, `email`, `phone`, `public_name` and `user_type` attributes.
 
 Anonymous
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-Logged-in applicants or students are regular authenticated Kofa users. Their user account object is an adaption of their applicant/student object. More precisely, the Applicant/Student Authenticator fetches the matching applicant/student object and turns it on-the-fly into a Kofa account object which is further used for creating a principle instance. The `applicant_id`/`student_id` attribute becomes the user name and the `display_fullname` property serves as user title.
+Logged-in applicants or students are regular authenticated Kofa users. Their user account object is an adaption of their applicant/student object. More precisely, the Applicant/Student authenticator fetches the matching applicant/student object and turns it on-the-fly into a Kofa account object which is further used for creating a principal instance. The `applicant_id`/`student_id` attribute becomes the user name and the `display_fullname` property serves as user title.
 
 
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-Officers are users with a dedicated user account object stored in the ``users`` container (of type :py:class:`UsersContainer <waeup.kofa.userscontainer.UsersContainer>`) which is located in Kofa's root container. The officer account object has two more attributes than the principle instance which is created from the account data: (1) a `roles` attribute which is a list of global role names assigned to the officer, and (2) a private `_local_roles` attribute. The latter maps local role names to lists of objects the respective local role applies to. This information is important because local role assignment is originally stored only with the objects the role applies to and not with the user who got the role. When removing a user, Kofa iterates over the mapping and the list of objects in order to remove all these local role assignments denoted in the mapping.
+Officers are users with a dedicated user account object stored in the ``users`` container (of type :py:class:`UsersContainer <waeup.kofa.userscontainer.UsersContainer>`) which is located in Kofa's root container. The officer account object has two more attributes than the principal instance which is created from the account data: (1) a `roles` attribute which is a list of global role names assigned to the officer, and (2) a private `_local_roles` attribute. The latter maps local role names to lists of objects the respective local role applies to. This information is important because local role assignment is originally stored only with the objects the role applies to and not with the user who got the role. When removing a user, Kofa iterates over the mapping and the list of objects in order to remove all these local role assignments denoted in the mapping.
 
 The management of portal officers is done in the 'Officers' section of Kofa. The management page shoes all officers registered in the portal together with their global and local roles. The table  can be easily sorted or filtered.
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-There is exactly one manager account (user id ``zope.manager``) in Kofa. The manager has access to the root instance of the Kofa application which has its own user interface. Through this 'Grok' user interface (see screenshot) the manager can access some basic functions to manage the database and also access the Kofa user interface.
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+There is one and only one manager account (user id ``zope.manager``) in Kofa. The manager has access to the root instance of the Kofa application which has its own user interface (see screenshot below). Through this 'Grok UI' the manager can access some basic functions to manage the database and also access the Kofa user interface.
 
 .. image:: Grok_UI.png
 
-Although the manager automatically gains all permissions the system defines, this real superuser neither has an account in Kofa nor can access Kofa through its regular login page.
+Although the manager automatically gains all permissions the system defines, this real superuser (or emergency user) neither has an account in Kofa nor can access Kofa through its regular login page. The manager has to enter the portal through the Grok UI which usually ony runs on a localhost port,  for example ``http://localhost:8080``.