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Users and Groups

MIT Users are added in two ways

• A basic account is automatically created when an MIT certificate-bearing user first arrives on the site.
• A basic account is automatically created when a new user is detected in any of the groups in the Moira feed (which imports any groups which are inside a container list named confluence-groups), or  when the user is detected in an equivalent feed of identified Stellar class lists .

Non-MIT users

• A non-MIT user (that is, a user not berring an MIT personal certificate) arriving on the site is redirected to a username/password login page. If the user does not yet have an account, he/she can follow a 'register' link from that page in order to caues a basic account created. Submission of the registration form causes a basic account to be created. The registrant's username will map to whatever the user enters as their email address.

Confluence Groups

• Confluence groups map to Moira groups and Stellar class membership lists. In order to add a user to a Confluence group, add that user to the proper Moira group or Stellar class group.
• A periodic (several times a day) Moira feed synchronizes internal Confluence groups with their corresponding Moira groups. The Stellar feed is more infrequent.
• If, in the feed, an MIT user is detected who does not yet have a basic Confluence account, an account will be created for that user and the user will be added to the appropriate Confluence group(s). Users with existing accounts will also be added to the appropriate group(s).
• If a non-MIT user is detected in the Moira feed, a basic account will not be created automatically. If the account for that user already exists, though, the user will be added to the appropriate group(s).
  A non-MIT user will not be added to Confluence group (except confluence-users – see below), even if the user exists in the Moira feed group, until that user has created an account via the 'register' page.
• All user accounts are included in a base-level group named confluence-users. This group can not be modified via Moira.

Default Groups

• confluence-users contains all people with Confluence accounts – both MIT and non-MIT
• mit-users contains all people with MIT kerberos accounts
• anonymous a pseudo group equivalent to everyone in the world without an account, used for the purpose of setting a space to be world-accessible.

Managing Groups

Creating and managing Moira lists for wiki access and administration

The recommended practice is to use at least two lists for your wiki space. One list should contain regular users of the space, and the others should contain space administrators. Members of the MIT community can create Moira lists at:
https://wserv.mit.edu:444/fcgi-bin/lc?

Using Existing Moira lists and Stellar class lists.

If you have existing lists you'd like to use for wiki access, you can do so.

• Be sure that the lists are AFS groups.
• The Registrar's office auto-populates Moira lists corresponding to the class membership. These lists can be useful if no Stellar site exists for a class. Contact the Accounts group (accounts@mit.edu) for more information.
• Stellar class lists can be used for access to a class wiki space. Contact confluence-hq@mit.edu for more information.

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Adding your groups to Confluence

A periodic feed populates Confluence with the groups you have created in Moira. Once your groups have been picked up by the feed, you can
use them to control access to your space within Confluence.
In your wiki space, go to..
Browse Space
Space Admin
Permissions
Click edit permissions and add your groups under the 'Groups' heading. Add permissions as appropriate.