Question

I cannot create user. Whenever I fill out the registration form, I get a success message and the User is entered in TWikiUsers, but that leads to nothing, ie. I cannot log in.

• I have no idea where to enter an initial password.
• Resetting doesn't work, I get the message that the user is unregistered.

I can't find anything about this in the docs or in the FAQs. I (try to) use basic authentification with .htaccess.

(BTW: Has anybody tried to implement LDAP authentification?)

• TWiki version: 01 Dec 2001 (? - Downloaded today)
• Web server: Apache 1.3.20
• Server OS: SuSE Linux 2.4.10-4GB
• Web browser: Konqueror 2.2.2
• Client OS: Debian Woody 2.2.19

-- ThorstenHaude - 08 May 2002

Answer

See TWikiDebugging for some ideas of what to try first, e.g. looking in Apache error log. This sounds like a permissions problem, so the error log may help. Registering a user should add a new line to twiki/data/.htpasswd, and create a user topic in the Main web.

As for authentication, I think LDAP authentication is used transparently at DrKW, not sure if they have posted a plugin though. There is an LdapPlugin but it's not for authentication. Also, see ForgettingPasswords for some links.

-- RichardDonkin - 09 May 2002

Followup

Found nothing in error_log or access_log. Permissions of .htaccess are wide open, still I get no entry and thus an oopsnotwikiuser when I try to do anything with that user. (The user page is there.) TWiki::writeDebug writes nothing (or I don't know where it writes to), neither do the debug statements on top of the register script.

Something is obviously missing here.

-- ThorstenHaude - 13 May 2002

Make sure to rename TWikiRegistrationPub to TWikiRegistration as indicated in the installation notes. This will show a form asking for the password twice.

-- PeterThoeny - 14 May 2002

Solution

-- ThorstenHaude - 23 May 2002

I have a similar problem, twiki seems to be working normally but when I try to use the twiki/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiRegistration it doesnt create the user correctly. It sends me an email to the address I gave, but it doesnt create an entry in twiki/data/.htpasswd, it doesnt have a password in the email sent to me and there is no entry in twiki/bin/view/Main/TWikiUsers. I tried to rename twiki/data/.htpasswd to twiki/data/.htpasswd.txt but its still not letting me create a user.

Thank

-- TWikiGuest - 03 Jul 2002

I had the same problem too, as I saw that TWikiRegistration already existed...I didn't realise there were 2 different forms! (could have been documented more clearly). Anyway, fixed now...thanks

-- FranBoon - 05 Jul 2002

Same problem, a short script that check the authentification configuration would be fine

-- PhilippeFroidevaux - 23 Mai 2003

Indeed, as would not having a default. How about forcing users to rename the appropriate form to TWikiRegistration during setup?

-- MartinCleaver - 24 May 2003