[ckan-dev] adding users through the admin interface

Tue Mar 18 13:34:40 UTC 2014

Hi Augusto,

Yeah, it shouldn't be difficult. You could probably reuse the user
invitation for organizations as well. If you're willing to give it a try
some time, create an issue in GitHub and ping me there.

Cheers,

2014-03-17 22:56 GMT-03:00 Augusto Herrmann <augusto.herrmann at gmail.com>:

> Hi, Vitor!
>
> Thanks for the explanation.
> We shall keep using paster for that purpose, then; I don't suppose
> creating users from the sysadmin interface should be too hard to implement
> in a future version of CKAN, though.
>
> Best,
> Augusto
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Vitor Baptista <vitor at vitorbaptista.com>wrote:
>
>> Olá Augusto,
>>
>> You can invite users to an organization by going into its members' list.
>> As far as I know, the only other way to add a user is by using paster
>> commands. There's no way to set up a sysadmin from the web interface as
>> well (just using paster).
>>
>> The UserController.new method isn't disabled: it's used by
>> UserController.register. I don't know why this was done this way, though,
>> as .register is simply delegating to .new.
>>
>> Thanks! You found a bug in our docs. We can delete users since CKAN 2.2.
>> I created an issue to fix it at https://github.com/ckan/ckan/issues/1602.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>> 2014-03-13 15:05 GMT-03:00 Augusto Herrmann <augusto.herrmann at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> is it possible to add users as a site admin through the web interface in
>>> CKAN 2.2? The documentation doesn't mention it the "managing users" section
>>> [1] <http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/sysadmin-guide.html#managing-users>.
>>> But I see a controller for this in the code [2]<https://github.com/ckan/ckan/blob/ckan-2.2/ckan/controllers/user.py#L151>,
>>> but no route assigned to it [3]<https://github.com/ckan/ckan/blob/ckan-2.2/ckan/config/routing.py>.
>>> Was it a feature intentionall left disabled?
>>>
>>> Also, the documentation mentions you can't delete users through the
>>> interface, but surprisingly I was able to do it.
>>>
>>> [1] http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/sysadmin-guide.html#managing-users
>>> [2]
>>> https://github.com/ckan/ckan/blob/ckan-2.2/ckan/controllers/user.py#L151
>>> [3] https://github.com/ckan/ckan/blob/ckan-2.2/ckan/config/routing.py
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Augusto Herrmann
>>>
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