Sitecore user manager search - search

I'm trying to search for users in the user manager window and I'm not getting any results. For example "admin" is a existing user but it doesn't return any result. Do you have any ideas?
Note: Role Manager works fine
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Are you sure it's not working? I know this might seem like a silly question but with large amounts of users, I've seen the user manager search be quite slow in returning results (and you don't really get a visual cue that it's actually working).
I've also seen this behavior when using "switcher" technology for my userbase.
Am not aware of any fixes unfortunately, sorry.

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Getting skype status from Javascript/Node

So I've been looking around for answers but haven't been able to find any up to date solutions to my problem. So my use case is pretty simple, I want to be able to check the online status of a list of users at my organisation using Skype for Business. Opening chats with them is simple enough, but actually getting the online status has shown to be a challenge.
I've been looking into the SDK but it seems a bit over the top for my use case, and I haven't been able to get web ticket authentication working (I'm implementing this in an Electron app). Even if I got that far, would I have to make an account with specifically only the contacts I need added and use that as authentication?
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but it seems like the SDK/API is a bit over my level and I'm missing something. Do I need to add in my own server middleware between the node/electron-app and their API or something similar maybe?
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Basic Groovy query regarding security / visibility

I am building a .gsp page to list the user details of an application with their specifications.
I want to let 3 roles to view it but allow only admin role to save any changes they make. For this I want the save button to be visible on screen only when the admin logs in.
I know I should be handling this in the controller, but being very new to programming I have no idea how that can be achieved?
Even if you could point me to a link that explains this it would be helpful.
I assume this is with Grails?
You really shouldnt invent your own security layer, the possibilities for getting it wrong are huge. Have a look at the spring-core-security plugin
It has detailed documentation (and for the bit in your question when you get it all set up, the documentation is here)
There are also tutorials to be found all over the web (one is here)

How best to deal with ExpressionEngine registration spam?

I've got a whole load of EE sites under my belt and generally don't have much of a problem with spam. However, one site that I look after is getting bombarded by registration spam lately. It is an extremely low traffic site and was a bit neglected which meant it was running an old version of EE.
I've now updated the site to the latest EE version and gone through double checking that everything was locked down. I've even tried installing Low NoSpam but I'm still getting the attempted registrations.
My initial thoughts were that there was some security hole in this old version of EE. But since I have now updated everything I'm not so sure.
What is the best way to deal with this other than turning registrations off?
I personally find that RECAPTCHA is the best captcha system out there:
http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/recaptcha
It's ADA compliant, your visitors help translate books and its probably the most popular. Snaptcha would do the trick as well, but I personally think that if you need a captcha (which I hate :)) then go with RECAPTCHA :)
Oh and it's completely FREE too!!
Have you changed the Profile Member trigger word to something other than 'member'?
I had excellent results with Snaptcha for comment spam - it works for registration spam too. Worth a look.

sessionAsSigner returning "undefined"

I'm having a problem with the sessionAsSigner object: it returns "undefined" if one of the custom controls used on an XPage is signed by another user than the XPage. This is annoying (at the least) if you're working with multiple users on the same application.
Has anyone else experienced this? Or can anyone tell me if this is "by design"?
I have also experienced this.
My guess is that it is 'as designed' as the renderer would have no sure way to know who the signer actually is when presented with two or more signing signatures.
Best practice is to always sign the entire application before testing or pushing to production with a signing ID.
I've seen HTTP 500 errors with two signers. It is one of the reasons in my mind when looking at source control and working on a local server.
Equally I think there are problems with two Java classes that use sessionAsSigner. I've found that when I had that, things were fine for a while, but after about half an hour the server crashed. I couldn't see anything in the NSD logs to certainly point to that, but was able to reproduce it. And when I signed the database, I had no problems.

No-code or little-code website

What is a (free) technology which requires the least amount of code for creating a website with the following requirements:
Sign-up/login
Form for adding your personal info. which gets databased
Each person can view and edit their own info
Admin can view and edit any
The form needs to be easily customizable and extensible (by the website's owner, not during run-time)
Is there a beginner tutorial for such a thing?
(For me, this question is about a friend who wants me to do this, but I want him to do it himself so I don't have to get roped into maintenance. I also want to keep it more general for the sake of Stack Overflow and future readers.)
Edit: I thought I remembered some ASP.NET tutorials that were mostly drag/drop or things where it was all but made for you from the database schema (which can be made with SSMS's GUI) but I can't seem to find them now.
Responding to posts below requesting specifics: this site will be for potential clients to sign-up and enter their company's info and fill out a form about their advertising needs.
I thought about putting this on SU instead, but since there was likely going to be some coding involved (I assumed no-code was an unreachable goal) SO seemed more appropriate.
Your friend can consider a framework like drupal. It has a bit of a learning code but, you can create a website with everything you ask for without code. You may want to modify it to change the look but there are themes for that.
Also, some hosts like godaddy.com have this installed and you do not have to worry about the complex installation procedures. Just start modifying the content of the site, select a built in template and go...
PhpBB? I think you need to specify what the website is going to be used for before you can get better/more specific answers.
... have a look at Drupal or Joomla, expect a learning curve nevertheless.
Is this friend a programmer as well? If so, I'd suggest building such a site using a PHP framework. Deploying an existing forum/wiki is also an option of course, but will probably have much more features than you describe. But if s/he's not a programmer, I don't see how s/he will be able to develop a site like that in a reasonable amount of time.
Why not using a CMS like wordpress, drupal and co. ?

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