[ckan-dev] adding users through the admin interface

Wed Mar 19 18:09:26 UTC 2014

Hello, we can create users from the web at /user/register using an 
Administrator account and the beginning of this patch[0] (only 
ckan/controllers/user.py modified). And it's very useful for us.

Cheers!

[0] 
http://git.agesic.gub.uy/agesic-arquitectura/ckanext-agesic/blob/master/ckan.patch

On 18/03/14 10:34, Vitor Baptista wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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