Policy Groups

Policy groups are a special type of group manager group.

'requester' refers to the netid of the person who filled out the qualtrics form to request a wiki.

• Policy groups are organized under an umbrella policy space
• Each new wiki is gets two policy groups visible in the umbrella policy space.
  • $wikiname-members lists who can edit the wiki, and can only be modified by members of $wikiname-managers.
  • $wikiname-managers lists who can update the editors/members.
• The requester is automatically a member of the both the wiki-members group and the wiki-managers group, which means they can:
  • edit the wiki and
  • control membership of the editors wiki policy group
• Only members of the editors/members policy group may edit the wiki space.
  • If a new user wants to edit the wiki space, the add their netID to the wiki-members group
  • If a user wants to control who edits the wiki space, add their netID to the wiki-managers group
• If the manager of the space wants, they can add a regular ad-hoc group-manager group to the membership of the wiki-manager policy group, and then whoever has rights to that can control the membership of the wiki space.
• For example: If Danny is in the wiki-managers group, he can add duke:group-manager:roles:duke-my-wiki-profiles to the managing policy group as a member, then members of that ad-hoc group, Ed and Susan, can control the membership of that group without having to bother Danny.
• NB: only users in the wiki-membership can edit/read the wiki, being in wiki-managers does not grant access to the wiki.