How can I remove all custom rights in xWiki

[shecodes]

I’ve come across some strange behaviors with lists and searches and I’ve narrowed it down to permissions issues.

I have a lot of unnecessary custom permissions and would like to remove them all and start over. How can I accomplish this? Thousands of pages, don’t want to do this manually.

[vmassol]

Hi, you could use queries to locate all pages containing xobjects of type XWiki.XWikiRights and remove them programatically. Note that this would also remove default permissions set on some spaces.

Resources:

• https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/DevGuide/DataModel/
• https://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Query%20Module
• https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/DevGuide/Scripting/APIGuide/

[Pbas]

Hi,
May I ?

To remove XWiki.XWikiRights xobjects maybe you can adapt my snippets

Xwiki 9.11.4 high cpu issue and xwiki slow

Here my piece of code from your snippet to remove all XWiki.Notifications.Code.NotificationFilterPreferenceClass object on all xwiki user #if ($request.confirm == '1') #set($className='XWiki.Notifications.Code.NotificationFilterPreferenceClass') #set($hql = "select obj.name from BaseObject obj where obj.className='XWiki.XWikiUsers'") ## display 10 users ## set($results = $xwiki.search($hql, 10, 0)) #set($results = $xwiki.search($hql)) #foreach ($User in $results) ## * [[$User]] …

Edit these variables:

#set($className='XWiki.Notifications.Code.NotificationFilterPreferenceClass')
#set($hql = "select obj.name from BaseObject obj where obj.className='XWiki.XWikiUsers'")

but first backup all your xwiki.

Pascal B

[shecodes]

Thanks everybody. I will do a good backup today and will try programmatically removing the XWiki.XWikiRights xobjects. I was a little afraid that this might affect my admin panel and AppWithinMinutes classes (and there are many) but nothing ventured nothing gained.

I’ll update next week on how it went.