Confluence User Accounts
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 is not modifyable via Moira.
Non-MIT users should be added to Moira groups as type 'string'.
To synch with the wiki service, the Moira lists used must be groups. A plain list will not do, nor will an email list which is not also a group. If you are requesting that an existing Moira group be included in the feed, please check that it is a group, and if you are requesting that a Moira list be created for the puropse of feeding your wiki site, make sure that you specify in the request that it should be a group.
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.