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Bug 334663

Summary:	No way to access user preferences using his user name
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	Szymon Brandys <Szymon.Brandys>
Component:	Server	Assignee:	Project Inbox <orion.server-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	ahunter.eclipse, john.arthorne
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Szymon Brandys

2011-01-18 11:01:51 EST

Right now we can access only preferences of the logged in user. Some values like user's workspaces or access rights could be modified by administrators. There is no API to do it now. Administrators can just call e.g. /prefs/user/window/favorites what will return their own preferences, but they can't call /prefs/user/szymonb/window/favorites to see other user's prefs.

Comment 1 Anthony Hunter

2014-03-13 13:34:13 EDT

Was there a specific use case that required the administrator to modify a particular user's preferences? Is this still a problem then you think?

Comment 2 John Arthorne

2014-06-11 11:22:37 EDT

No reason for this comes to mind.