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[xwiki-users] Taxonomy
by Stephen Eaton 13 Aug '09

13 Aug '09

G'day one and all, I'm looking at using xwiki for our intranet and was wondering how existing taxonomies can be implemented/imported into xwiki Regards, Stephen....

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[xwiki-users] Problem with Import Office Content - XML tags are visible
by Matthias.Gsottberger＠o2.com 13 Aug '09

13 Aug '09

Hi! We have a problem with the new "Import Office Content" functionality in XWiki Enterprise 1.9.2.22089. The problem exists with Internet Explorer 6.0.2800.1106; with Firefox 3.0.7 everything is working fine .... After copy&paste of some word content into the import office panel some xml tags are visible in the imported text: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> To reproduce: 1. In Edit mode, selected Import Office Content. 2. In Office Importer, select Clipboard, copy&paste some word text and select Import. (filter styles / don't filter styles doesn't matter) 3. Preview / Save and view What is the problem that only Internet Explorer is affected ? Thanks in advance Matthias Gsottberger

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[xwiki-users] Problem with Import Office Content - XML tags are visible
by Matthias.Gsottberger＠o2.com 13 Aug '09

13 Aug '09

... done http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-4161 thanks Matthias >Coukd you provide a sample file in a JIRA bug report so that we can >check it out ? >Ludovic > >>Matthias.Gsottberger at o2.com a écrit : >> Hi! >> >> We have a problem with the new "Import Office Content" functionality in >> XWiki Enterprise 1.9.2.22089. >> 3.0.7 everything is working fine .... >> >> After copy&paste of some word content into the import office panel some >> xml tags are visible in the imported text: >> >> <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" >> /> >> >> >> To reproduce: >> 1. In Edit mode, selected Import Office Content. >> 2. In Office Importer, select Clipboard, copy&paste some word text and >> select Import. (filter styles / don't filter styles doesn't matter) >> 3. Preview / Save and view >> >> >> What is the problem that only Internet Explorer is affected ? >> >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> Matthias Gsottberger >> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> users at xwiki.org >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> >>

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[xwiki-users] totally groovy! (using groovy SSH script to securely launch unix processes out of Xwiki)
by Niels Mayer 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

This might be useful for those wanting to do server administration functions (start/stop tomcat, reboot, stats, etc) out of an Xwiki doc (make sure your doc is password protected or more, if it allows people to reboot your server!; Anything needing root or tomcat user would use /etc/sudoers to grant specfic permissions to specific programs needed by user tomcat-ssh-slave): Input: > ==== Use Groovy Script run server processes and display result ==== > See [[SshHelperClass?viewer=code]], [[ > http://blog.asyd.net/2008/12/xwiki-cest-decidemment-magique/]] > ==== Call parseGroovyFromPage("Groovy.SshHelperClass") ==== {{velocity}} #set( $sshHelper = $xwiki.parseGroovyFromPage("Groovy.SshHelperClass") ) $sshHelper.openSession("127.0.0.1", "22", "tomcat-ssh-slave", > "/usr/share/tomcat6/.ssh/id_dsa", "") {{/velocity}} > ==== Output from 'uname -a'==== ##{{velocity}}$sshHelper.runCommand("uname -a"){{/velocity}}## > ==== Output from 'free' ==== ##{{velocity}}$sshHelper.runCommand("free"){{/velocity}}## > ==== Output from 'ps -l U tomcat-ssh-slave U tomcat U apache' ==== ##{{velocity}}$sshHelper.runCommand("ps -l h U tomcat-ssh-slave U tomcat U > apache"){{/velocity}}## > ==== Output from 'df -H' ==== ##{{velocity}}$sshHelper.runCommand("df -H"){{/velocity}}## > ==== Output from 'top -b -n 1' ==== ##{{velocity}}$sshHelper.runCommand("top -b -n 1"){{/velocity}}## > ==== Close the connection and exit tomcat-ssh-slave shell ==== warning: if something breaks above, hopefully this will get called otherwise > we get a left-over sub-process tomcat-ssh-slave ##{{velocity}}$sshHelper.close(){{/velocity}}## Output: > Use Groovy Script run server processes and display result > > See SshHelperClass , >> http://blog.asyd.net/2008/12/xwiki-cest-decidemment-magique/ > > *Call parseGroovyFromPage("Groovy.SshHelperClass")* > > *Output from 'uname -a'* > > Linux ce 2.6.27.29-170.2.78.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jul 31 04:16:20 EDT >> 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > *Output from 'free'* > > total used free shared buffers cached > > Mem: 1928992 1778932 150060 0 47272 532128 > > -/+ buffers/cache: 1199532 729460 > > Swap: 3866616 78776 3787840 > > *Output from 'ps -l U tomcat-ssh-slave U tomcat U apache'* > > 5 S 92 18792 18788 0 80 0 - 22060 select ? 0:00 sshd: >> tomcat-ssh-slave@notty > > 0 R 92 18879 18792 1 80 0 - 22453 - ? 0:00 ps -l h U tomcatssh-slave U >> tomcat U apache > > 0 S 91 31695 1 0 80 0 - 463955 futex_ ? 7:47 /usr/java/default/bin/java >> -server -Xms160m -Xmx1024m -XX:PermSize=160m -XX:MaxPermSize=320m ... > > *Output from 'df -H'* > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 242G 26G 204G 12% / > > /dev/sda1 200M 15M 175M 8% /boot > > tmpfs 988M 353k 988M 1% /dev/shm > > *Output from 'top -b -n 1'* > > top - 11:17:20 up 2 days, 16:21, 3 users, load average: 0.78, 0.68, 0.56 > > Tasks: 150 total, 2 running, 148 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > > Cpu(s): 7.7%us, 1.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 90.2%id, 0.3%wa, 0.1%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st > > Mem: 1928992k total, 1794420k used, 134572k free, 47304k buffers > > Swap: 3866616k total, 78776k used, 3787840k free, 532356k cached > > ... > > Special Installation Instructions To make this run (Fedora Linux): 1. sudo yum install trilead-ssh2 trilead-ssh2-javadoc 2. sudo ln -s /usr/share/java/trilead-ssh2-213.jar /usr/share/java/tomcat6/trilead-ssh2.jar 3. Make sure "tomcat" user exists in /etc/passwd, and create an additional uid=92 gid=92 account "tomcat-ssh-slave": • tomcat:x:91:91:Apache Tomcat:/usr/share/tomcat6:/bin/sh ° "tomcat" user created as "disabled" by installing tomcat6-6.0.18-6.2.fc10 • tomcat-ssh-slave:x:92:92:User for SSH Subprocesses From Tomcat:/home/tomcat-ssh-slave:/bin/bash ° create this using fedora admin utility 'system-config-users' or by hand-editing /etc/passwd... 4. sudo passwd -u tomcat • unlock tomcat account temporarily 5. sudo passwd tomcat • set password for tomcat account 6. Login to "tomcat" account using SSH from current account terminal. 7. ssh-keygen -t dsa • Leave "empty for no passphrase" for decrypting the DSA-key produced by ssh-keygen, although it can be specified as last parameter for sshHelper.openSession("localhost", "22", "tomcat-ssh-slave", "/usr/share/tomcat6/.ssh/id_dsa", ""). 8. From the "tomcat" account, run "ssh tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1" • answer Yes: "Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes" • enter password for tomcat-ssh-slave set above via system-config-users. • exit the connection. • The purpose of this step is to test the account, and init /usr/share/tomcat6/.ssh/known_hosts 9. sudo cp /usr/share/tomcat6/.ssh/id_dsa.pub tomcat-ssh-slave/.ssh/authorized_keys 10. From the "tomcat" account, do "ssh tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1" again • verify that login happens w/o password prompt, which is what happens when authorized_keys is set to the public key of the account accessing SSH. • exit from tomcat-ssh-slave account. It's now ready to run out of tomcat. 11. passwd -l tomcat • lock the tomcat account from further logins, now that it's been setup and the dsa public/private keys have been generated. 1. *TODO:* remove password from user tomcat-ssh-slave ('!!' in passwd field of /etc/shadow) password not needed for login 2. *TODO:* alternately, is there a local customization to ensure certs only used for login to the account? I know this can be done globally in /etc/ssh/sshd_config: "PasswordAuthentication no" and "PermitEmptyPasswords no" 3. *TODO:* for user tomcat-ssh-slave, integrate "limited command processing" by replacing /bin/sh as login shell with /usr/local/bin/tomcat-ssh-shell (or equiv): #!/bin/sh -noprofile ############################################################################### # # File: sshslave-shell # RCS: $Header: $ # Description: Shell to allow execution of remote commands from a tomcat server. # For security purposes, this "login" is limited in commands it can # perform, and runs as a separate user from the tomcat server, separating # the ability to directly modify tomcat state from the functionality provided # by user tomcat-ssh-slave. This shell is run as the "login shell" (via # /etc/passwd) for account tomcat-ssh-slave, which is accessed via SSH. # The account is preferably a nonprivileged user account with pid>500, Home # directory /home/tomcat-ssh-slave must exist, with correct permisssions. # /home/tomcat-ssh-slave contains scripts referred to via fully qualified # filenames in this script. The directory would also store the accounts' # .ssh settings, keys, etc. Secure, password-less access to the tomcat-ssh-slave # account can be achieved by having tomcat's SSH public identity /usr/share/tomcat6/.ssh/id_dsa.pub # installed as /home/tomcat-ssh-slave/.ssh/authorized_keys (and keeping id_dsa secret) # This would prevent use of tomcat-ssh-slave "account" from being used by anything # other than preauthorized accounts. # # Here's some example commands: # # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1 cleanlog # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1 getlog # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1 setdbglvl 'INFO' # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1 getdbglvl # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1 tomcat-restart # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1 apache-restart # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1 tomcat-start # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1 apache-start # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1 top # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1 ps # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1 df # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1 free # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1 reboot # Author: Niels P. Mayer # Created: Monday 8/10/2009 # Modified: # Language: Shell-script # Package: N/A # Status: Production # # (C) Copyright 2009, Niels Mayer, all rights reserved. # ############################################################################### # make sure nothing funny goes on PATH="/bin:/usr/bin" # make sure they rsh or ssh in with a single command if [ -z "$1" ] || [ "$1" != "-c" ] then echo You must use ssh -c to access this account exit 1 else shift SSHSLAVE_COMMAND="$@" fi # only let them run specific commands, eg. # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1 cleanlog # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1 getlog # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1 setdbglvl 'INFO' # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1 getdbglvl # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1 tomcat-restart # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1 apache-restart # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1 tomcat-start # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1 apache-start # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1 top # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1 ps # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1 df # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1 free # ssh -x tomcat-ssh-slave(a)127.0.0.1 reboot case ${SSHSLAVE_COMMAND} in cleanlog \ getlog \ getdbglvl \ tomcat-restart \ apache-restart \ tomcat-start \ apache-start \ top \ ps \ df \ free \ reboot \ ) #single argument commands -- exact match to SSHSLAVE_COMMAND exec "/home/tomcat-ssh-slave/${SSHSLAVE_COMMAND}" ;; setdbglvl* \ #e.g., setdbglvl 'INFO' ... multiple argument command. Beware command injection. ) exec `echo "/home/tomcat-ssh-slave/${SSHSLAVE_COMMAND}" | cut -f1 -d" "` `echo "${SSHSLAVE_COMMAND}" | cut -f2- -d" "` ;; * ) exec echo You are not authorized to do that. ;; esac Niels http://nielsmayer.com

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[xwiki-users] [ANN] XWiki Enterprise Manager 1.7.3 Released
by Jean-Vincent Drean 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise Manager 1.7.3. Go grab it at http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download XWiki Enterprise Manager 1.7.3 uses XWiki Enterprise 1.9.3. For more information see the release notes at: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise193 Thanks, The XWiki dev team

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[xwiki-users] [ANN] XWiki Enterprise 1.9.3 Released
by Jean-Vincent Drean 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise 1.9.3. Go grab it at http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download This is a bug fix and enhancement release mainly around security and the tag and mailsender applications. Changes since XWiki Enterprise 1.9.2. Improvements: * XWIKI-4065 New Footnote macro Important Bugs fixed: * XWIKI-4109: Guest users are sometimes logged in with another user account * XWIKI-3827: GWT wysiwyg editor has dark background with Albatross skin * XPMAIL-17: Wrong characters in non-ascii emails * XATAG-21: List documents with tag, rename/delete tag fails with specific versions of MySQL5 * XATAG-22: Rename and delete actions fail with tag containing non-ascii chars * XABLOG-27: Article date not displayed properly in IE6 For more information see the Release notes at: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise193 Thanks, The XWiki dev team

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Re: [xwiki-users] [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Wiki 2.0 Menu
by Ecaterina Valica 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 09:34, Niels Mayer <nielsmayer(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The proximity or default actions associated with the menus "edit" "show" > "print" "action" or "watch" are often accidentally triggered by careless > mouse-clicks intended for the "browser-tabs" or "toolbar", usually situated > directly above the document in many browsers. I also think it is unaesthetic > to have the current menus overlay"active space" in the LHS panels. It seems > like the new design still has a lot of action very "close" to the > browser-tabs and toolbar, which can lead to unintended browser accidents. > > I'd like to see the menu positioned away from the very top of the window, > and instead, be placed at the bottom ofthe 220x70 > header-image /xwiki/bin/download/XWiki/DefaultSkin/*.jpg, over the > "breadcrumbs" displaying the > path to the document. Alternately, consider that the right-hand-side of the > top of the document is under-used, and the left-hand-side is cluttered: you > end up overlaying menus on the left-had-side column should that feature be > enabled. > http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Improvements/Skin20P1/gener… More about the skin proposal at http://markmail.org/message/nagihrc2xqpzw4dz

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[xwiki-users] Wiki suitability by ACL, security, and support
by Trevor 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Hello. Please let me know if I'm using the wrong mailing list. I am currently evaluating XWiki (along with several other wikis) for use within our small development team. We will be sharing the wiki with clients as well, so we have several criteria that MUST be met: 1. WYSIWYG editing 2. Clean interface, small learning curve 3. Fine-grained user access to pages 4. Security (the wiki will be on a server exposed to the internet, but will be private) 5. Good support base In trying out XWiki Enterprise and looking through the documentation I think it meets these requirements (definitely 1-3). My questions are: 1. We will want to segregate the clients from each other (ie. they won't be aware of each other), but our development team would need one-login access to all content, across clients. ie. if a developer logs in, they would have access to all content; if client A logs in, they would only see client A's content, etc. Am I understanding correctly that with User Groups and proper ACL we could achieve this? 2. I'm trying to get an idea of the support base behind XWiki: does the support and development rely on a small number of developers (or only one), or on a true community of developers? I noticed the "XWiki Project Health" page is quite out of date (only going up to Nov/07). 3. We do not currently have Java server experience; will XWiki be easy to install/run/manage securely without exposing ourselves and our clients to risks out of ignorance of the underlying technology? Is it inherently more secure than using PHP on an Apache webserver (as I have read), or does it just come down to security awareness? Any comments or additional information would be welcome. Excuse me if I have asked questions that are readily available on the website -- I have looked through the online documentation but have also evaluated many wikis and my eyes are starting to blur. Thanks very much, Trevor

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[xwiki-users] Users not displayed
by Christian Ribeaud 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

Hi, We made a XWiki default installation, nothing special. We are using a MySQL5 database which has been configured as following:  <property name="connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost:33065/xwiki? useServerPrepStmts = false &amp ;useUnicode =true&characterEncoding=UTF-8&sessionVariables=sql_mode=''</ property> <property name="connection.username">username</property> <property name="connection.password">password</property> <property name="connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</ property> <property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</ property> <property name = "connection .provider_class">com.xpn.xwiki.store.DBCPConnectionProvider</property> <property name="connection.pool_size">2</property> <property name="statement_cache.size">2</property> <mapping resource="xwiki.hbm.xml"/> <mapping resource="feeds.hbm.xml"/> XWiki is running in a Tomcat6 container with jdk1.5.0. For some reason I do not understand, I am not able to see the users list when logged as administrator (which all consequences this implies...). However I see the number of users that are registered (see attached picture)!! Does anyone understand what the problem could be? I tried to display this page with Firefox and Safari. Nothing, and apparently no JS error. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I wish you a wonderful day and a nice week-end. Best, christian -- Canoo - Your Solution Provider for Rich Internet Applications Christian Ribeaud Canoo Engineering AG Kirschgartenstrasse 5 CH-4051 Basel Tel: +41 61 228 94 44 Fax: +41 61 228 94 49 christian.ribeaud(a)canoo.com http://www.canoo.com/

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Re: [xwiki-users] [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Wiki 2.0 Menu
by Ecaterina Valica 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

> I think we should rename "Actions" back to "More Actions" since the > second is more common (I can think of gmail for example). > i'm ok with that. I would also like to have "Create" instead of the "Add" action. You can *add * comments and tags, but I think it's more appropriate to *create* pages. > > 1. We need to decide the way we handle the actions we are able to do > > (depending on the rights we have): enable/disable them or hide them. > > Why do we keep the "view" entry ? > I personally use "edit" to see the source of a page, may be others do the > same. > Anyway it's still useful to people without edit rights, in this case > we could keep "edit" activated and display the source with a message > saying something like "You need to login to edit this page, etc" or > "You're not allowed to edit this page" depending on the situation. > I was thinking with Marta and G, would it be ok to add "History" and "Information" to the "View" submenu? Something like http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Improvements/Skin20Menu/vie… Information in this case has been rename in "Related Pages". > 2. You can select to have an simple or advanced menu (View and Edit > submenus > > affected) > > I wouldn't like that we use a tab layout for buttons that are actually > not tabs, for example "view" and "edit" in simple mode. In simple mode "view" and "edit" are not buttons, but actually tabs, you change the view (tab) from one action to another, they aren't form buttons. > The menu must be revamped but I'd prefer that we stick to the dropdown > layout since it allows: > - to mix single buttons and dropdown lists in my opinion is the same thing, just the aligment (horizontally, vertically) is different. The problems with dropdowns I understood that it's not well supported if you don't have JS activated, and also dropdowns can block some of the page content. The advantage of the dropdown is when you have many items in the menu - but it's not really the case and anyway menus that are very crowded are hard to use. Another thing is that using this kind of menu, you integrate the tabs in Edit (Wiki, WYSYWIG, Objects ...) with the menu, instead of having the panel. This way you give an unique access point to the editing. - to use icons more easily in the mockups icons are not presented, but I don't see how the dropdown menu can have a better support for icons than then horizontal menu. it's the same thing, we could have also icons in this kind of menu. > - to create categories more easily (for example in "Actions") > you can have categories also in horizontal menus. Thanks for all your comments, Caty

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