Advanced XAR export | User rights for export

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Hello everyone,

I would like to save our entire XWiki as an XAR export at regular intervals. I use the following URL for this purpose: http://server/xwiki/bin/export/Space/Page?
format=xar&pages=Space.Page. The file is downloaded using the curl command, which is given a user and a password. So curl -u user:password -o export.xar ‘http://server/xwiki/bin/export/Space/Page?format=xar&pages=Space.Page’
According to my research, the user needs admin rights to be able to start the export. Is it possible to start the export with a user with fewer rights or what rights can I withdraw from the admin so that he no longer has full control of the system, but can ‘only’ initiate the export? The background is that I don’t want to have an additional admin with full control on the system whose access data is in plain text in the curl command.

Many thanks and best regards
Daniel

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Hello, what you asked is not possible easily (since there’s no “export” rights).

I think you could achieve what you want by creating a page on your wiki, protected with some permissions you decide and in it, you’d use a script (velocity, groovy) to perform the export and return the content.Not trivial to write though.

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