Question

Is it possible to restrict the usage (viewing/editing/renaming etc) of a specific web to a specific group? I tried creating a group with all users in and one with only the users I wanted to get access to the page. Then in the WebPreferences of the web I wrote DENYWEBVIEW = TheGroupWithAllInIt? and ALLOWWEBVIEW = TheAllowedGroup? . But that din't work. How do I handle this situation?

/jonas

• TWiki version: 01-September
• Web server: Apache
• Server OS: OpenBSD?
• Web browser: Lynx
• Client OS: OpenBSD?

-- TWikiGuest - 20 Nov 2001

Answer

Don't bother about DENYWEBVIEW. Simply specifying ALLOWWEBVIEW = Main.TheAllowedGroup should be enough. Note that group topics should be defined in the Main web.

Also, the users need to be recognised for view. This can be done by enabling basic authentication for the view script (has the disadvantage that users need to log in also for reading non protected webs.) Alternatively enable $doRememberRemoteUser in the configuration and make a hardlink of view to viewauth. See details in the docs.

-- PeterThoeny - 20 Nov 2001