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How do you administer a TWiki when LoginManager is set to 'none'? I receive this error when I try to save my changes:

Access Denied Attention Access check on TWiki.TWikiPreferences failed. Action "change": access not allowed on web. Contact webmaster@examplePLEASENOSPAM.com if you have any questions.

Related topics: TWikiGroups, TWikiAccessControl

From the documentaion:

No Login

Does exactly what it says on the tin. Forget about authentication to make your site completely public - anyone can browse and edit freely, in classic Wiki style. All visitors are given the TWikiGuest default identity, so you can't track individual user activity.

Which means to me that I should be able to edit the TWikiPreferences page without logging in. (I am working on an Intranet, so this is what I want for now.) Am I incorrect in this asssumption?

Environment

TWiki version: TWikiRelease04x00x04
TWiki plugins: DefaultPlugin, EmptyPlugin, InterwikiPlugin
Server OS: SUSE Linex 10.1
Web server: Apache 2.2.0
Perl version: 5.8.8
Client OS: Windows and Linux
Web Browser: IE, Firfox
Categories: Installation, Permissions

-- ChristopherTaleck - 06 Jul 2006

Answer

ALERT! If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

There's a rather little quirk in there. Editing the TWikiPreferences topic is, per distribution default, restricted to TWikiAdminGroup, and the unauthenticated user is not a member of that group. The easiest workaround would be to add TWikiGuest to the line starting with * Set GROUP = ATWikiUser in your Main.TWikiAdminGroup topic.

-- HaraldJoerg - 06 Jul 2006

Thank you for your help. That is what I did and it worked.

-- ChristopherTaleck - 06 Jul 2006

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