Users- A basic account is automatically created when an MIT certificate-bearing or Touchstone authenticated user first
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| arrives on a protected wiki space or first clicks on - logs in to the service. When a new user attempts to access a protected site, that user will be propmted to log in. A new user can also log in by explicitly clicking the 'Log In' link.
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| usersA non-MIT user (that is, a user not bearing an MIT personal certificate) arriving on a protected wiki space, or on clicking the 'Log In' link, is redirected to a username/password login page. If the user does not yet have an account, he/she can follow a 'Sign up' link from that page. Submission of the registration form causes a basic account to be created. The registrant's username will map to whatever the user has entered as their email address. Username/password accounts are disallowed for email addresses ending in '@mit.edu and '@<something>.mit.edu' since anyone with such an address is eligible to use MIT's preferred authorization (e.g. personal certificates). There is one exception to that rule: Users with email addresses ending in '@alum.mit.edu' are not eligible for certificates and are therefore allowed to create username/password accounts' guest' users- Non MIT people must create 'collaboration accounts' in MIT's Touchstone single sign-on service. Once such an account has been created, a basic guest-level wiki account will be auto created the first time the collaboration-account bearing user logs into wikis.mit.edu.
A space administrator can then give the person an appropriate level of space permissions by specifying the person's touchstonenetwork.net identity on the space's permissions page. Note |
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| Note that a collaboration account user's username is not the same as that person's email address, but rather takes the form.. identity_n@touchstonenetwork.net ..where identity is generated from the person's email address, and n takes care of potential duplicates. For example, a user who has registered for a Collaboration account using the email address.. joe.schmoe@flub.edu ..will have a touchstone collaboration identity of joe.schmoe_1@touchstonenetwork.net. A user who registers subsequently using email address.. joe.schmoe@something.com \ ..will have a touchstone collaboration identity of joe.schmoe_2@touchstonenetwork.net. *The Touchstone collaboration identity – not email address – is used as the person's username in wikis.mit.edu* |
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To identify Touchstone Collaboration account users, use the search facility (magnifying glass icon) on your space's Edit Permissions page: Image Added Remember: Non-MIT people will not come up in your search until they have: - created a Touchstone Collaboration account
- activated their Touchstone Collaboration account
- gone to https://wikis.mit.edu/ and logged in at least once using their Touchstone Collaboration Account identity.
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If you need help in determining the Touchstone collaboration identity of a user, contact wiki-support@mit.edu.
Wiki Group Membership- Wiki groups map to Moira groups and Stellar class membership lists. In order to add a user to a wiki group, add that user to the proper Moira group or Stellar class group.
- Any Moira group can be associated with a space. A space administrator can asociate any Moira group with his/her space. A periodic (several times a day)
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| Moira - feed synchronizes internal wiki groups with their corresponding Moira groups.
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| Any Moira group named confluence-<groupname> e.g. 'confluence-mygroup' will be picked up in the feed. - Non-MIT users can be added to the Moira group as type STRING.
The Stellar feed is more infrequent (generally twice a day).
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| If a person who is in a Moira group associated with a wiki space is denied access, that person should click the 'Update My Memberships' link near the top of the page. If that person is a member of a group associated with the space in question, a link to that space should then appear on that person's 'dashboard' page.- It is not necessary to use Moira groups to control acces to wiki spaces. Access to some wiki spaces
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| is - can be controlled at the individual user level
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| . If 'Update My Memberships' does not resolve an access problem, there are two likely possibilities: -- the user is not a member of the appropriate Moira group --the space in question uses individual permissions and the user has not been added In either case, the user should first contact the space administrator of the space in question to determine his/her status non-MIT - Touchstone collaboration user is detected in the Moira feed, a basic account will
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| If the account for that user already exists, though, the user should click 'Update My Memberships' to be added to the appropriate wiki group(s).- 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
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- 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.
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| Managing GroupsCreating and managing Moira lists for wiki access and administrationThe 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: http://wserv.mit.edu/lc/
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| - Create "traditional" Moira lists, not Mailman lists
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| must - , as space administrator, should be a member and administrator of any Moira list you create for use in your wiki space
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| Name your Moira list(s) confluence-<something>, e.g. confluence-mygroup. A Moira list named 'confluence-mygroup' will map to the wiki group 'mygroup'- .
- All Moira lists must also be AFS groups and should be 'visible'. This is important. Be sure to check the appropriate
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- Create an admin list for the space
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e.g. mygroup-wiki-admin Make yourself the list owner. note that after creating the list, you may wish to add others to it and to make it a self-administered list (set the listowner to be the list itself).
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e.g. confluence-mygroup-admin- You can do this at: https://web.mit.edu/moira//
- Create the user-level list for the space. Make the owner of this list admin group you just created.
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| confluence-mygroup- mygroup-wiki
You can add usernames to the group at: https://web.mit.edu/moira/ - Non-MIT users should be added to Moira lists as type 'string
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| '.Groups with names that do not start with confluence-' will not be included in the feed and corresponding wiki groups will not be created new list 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. Note |
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| - Be sure that the lists are AFS groups
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| .Be sure that you are a member of each group you wish to useYou can create a container group in order to get existing groups into the feed. For example, if you have an existing group named 'mygroup', you can make that group a member of another group, e.g. confluence-mygroup, for purposes of associating the group with the wiki.- 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
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| confluencehq@mit- support@mit.edu for more information.
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| Initiating Associating your group(s) in ConfluenceA periodic feed populates Confluence with the groups you have created in Moira. Once your groups have been picked up by the feed, space administrators 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.
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| Add - Modify permissions as appropriate
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| . If you find that the group is not found, click on 'Update My Memberships' and try again. Giving group members access to your spaceOnce you have initiated the group and set permissions for it in the space, instruct members of the groups to do the following: Go to https://wikis.mit.edu/ Image RemovedLog InClick 'Update My Memberships'Look for the space under the 'All' tab of the Dashboard Page |