Hi Eduard, thanks for your help! How can I recreate the user if the macros don't work at that point? It does not seem to work out.
Thanks, Tom > From: enygma2...@gmail.com > Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 12:25:05 +0300 > To: users@xwiki.org > Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] failed to execute velocity macros > > Hi, > > Deleting the XWiki.Admin user is not a good idea. It is generally used as > the last author and content editor of pretty much all the default XWiki > documents, most of them containing scripts. A script can only execute if > its last content author has the SCRIPT right. If that author is deleted, > then the script also loses its right to execute. So it does not matter what > user you use to *see* the script, but what user you used to *save* the > script (thus granting it the rights of this last user/author). > > My suggestion is that you undelete/recreate the XWiki.Admin user (easiest > option) and then disable it (i.e. mark it as inactive to not allow it to > log in), if you don`t want to use it. This way the old scripts inside wiki > pages will resume functioning. > > Note that this is not only about the Admin user, so you need to be aware > that once you delete a user, you "revoke" the right of execution for any > scripts he might have authored. This is generally a good thing, but it can > also bite you, as you`ve seen. > > This extension might also be useful (but recommended only for users other > than XWiki.Admin): > http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Change+Content+Author > > Hope this helps, > Eduard > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Tom Neumann <tom.neum...@outlook.de> > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I've got a problem with my xwiki build right now. > > I configured LDAP and gave my LDAP user all the rights on the wiki, but I > > forgot to make him the owner of the wiki. > > After that I logged in with the LDAP user and deleted the old admin > > account and tried to set my LDAP user as owner of the wiki. > > > > Now every page shows this message: > > Failed > > to execute the [velocity] macro. Cause: [The execution of the > > [velocity] script macro is not allowed. Check the rights of its last > > author or the parameters if it's rendered from another script.]. Click > > on this message for details. > > > > Even the superuser account can't see the pages normally. > > What can I do? Is there a setting to give velocity macro rights to > > everybody? > > Or can I edit the database somehow?... > > > > Thanks, > > Tom > > > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list > > users@xwiki.org > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
