Question

When a new user is registered, the username is not getting added automatically to the user list and not creating the personal Twiki topic for the user. What could be the problem?

Environment

-- AnithaMadhan - 24 Jul 2007

Answer

If you answer a question - or have a question you asked answered by someone - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status is in a drop-down list below the edit box.

It could be a permissions issue. Does the web server have permission to write to the data directory? Are you able to edit and save any other wiki pages?

-- AndrewRJones - 24 Jul 2007

Yes, I am able to edit other pages. I am TwikiAdministrator? and able to edit evrything else. Even the users list, I am able to edit manually, but the registration page says that the user will be added to the list automatically, which is not happening. Since Twiki is used across the organization, people keep registering on their own and we cannot instruct them to add the names to the user list. Any help to solve this problem is appreciated.

-- AnithaMadhan - 25 Jul 2007

The user pages and the entry in the user list are done by a special user id named TWikiRegistrationAgent. This user id must be allowed to edit topics in the user web in general (to add new users' home topics), and to TWikiUsers in particular (to add new users to the list). Did you perhaps restrict editing in the users' web? Do you have an entry for TWikiRegistrationAgent in your TWikiUsers list (may be missing if you upgraded from an earlier version)?

-- HaraldJoerg - 25 Jul 2007

Thanks Harald. I have set restrictions to TwikiUsers? topic which created the problem. Thanks for the suggestion. It works now.

-- AnithaMadhan - 27 Jul 2007