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  1. XWiki Platform
  2. XWIKI-15414

Enable XWikiAllGroup as implicit group by default

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      We recommend enabling implicit XWikiAllGroup on production instances that have large numbers of users, see https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/AdminGuide/Performances/#HLargenumberofusers

      We should enable this configuration by default.

      Currently we have some issues when deleting and restoring some users: they lose their groups and rights (see XWIKI-11624). Having an implicit group would prevent the need to manually add the restored user to the default XWikiAllGroup in order to have some rights.

      Also we should protect the default implicit group and treat it special. We shouldn't allow its deletion, see XWIKI-15413, we could display it somehow special in the Groups list (see a possible proposal https://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/Users/ImplicitUsers/WebHome/groups.png) or even in Rights (see a possible proposal https://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Proposal/Users/ImplicitUsers/WebHome/rightsSmall.png). Adding and removing users should refresh and always keep up to date the status of the implicit XWikiAllGroup group, or whatever its name is defined in #xwiki.cfg#.

      Some related ideas about this issue can be found on https://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/Users/ImplicitUsers/

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          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. XWIKI-15413 Deleting XWikiAllGroup loses the default/implicit rights

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Open

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. XWIKI-11624 When a user page is restored from trashbin it's not put back in XWikiAllGroup

          • Critical - Crashes, loss of data, severe memory leak.
          • Closed

          New Feature - A new feature of the product, which has yet to be developed. XWIKI-2116 Allow XWiki.XWikiAllGroup to be an implicit group, containing all the users without explicitly listing them as objects

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

          Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. XWIKI-15592 Explain the AllGroupImplicit on the UI, wherever the AllGroup is displayed

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Open

          Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. XWIKI-11818 Change default value of xwiki.users.initialGroups based on xwiki.authentication.group.allgroupimplicit

          • Major - Major loss of function.
          • Closed

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              evalica Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)
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