Question

I can't add new users...

I have made the substitution of the TWikiRegistration.* files by the TWikiRegistrationPub.* files and everything else mentionned in the Enabling Authentication of Users section of the doc. When I try to register, it send me the notification email but I'm not added to the user list nor the .htpasswd file!

• TWiki version: 01Feb2003
• Perl version: 5.005_03 (for sun4-solaris)
• Web server & version: Apache 1.3.27
• Server OS: SunOS 5.8
• Web browser & version: Opera 7.01 & Netscape
• Client OS: SunOS 5.8 & WinXP
• RCS: RCSLite
• Testenv: testenv

By the way, testenv prints

Error: This directory is not writable by webmast user.

but that's wrong as webmast is a member of the group owning these directory and this group has full rights!

-- TWikiGuest - 18 Feb 2003

Answer

Nevertheless something is stopping webmast from writing to those directories. What is the result of ls -la /users/nisole/twikinvisible/data ? (from a shell prompt)

-- MattWilkie - 18 Feb 2003

Thanks for the details and the testenv link. You might also like to look at TWikiOnSolaris (not much there yet) and note that your I18N setup isn't working at present, due to TWiki not being able to set the locale correctly. This is often an indicator of a missing or broken locale - try setting the same locale from the command line and running a locale-aware application (e.g. vim or mutt). ISO-8859-15 can be challenging for some browsers, see Google:telsa+iso+8859+15+netscape.

I would investigate the permissions as well - testenv actually writes a test file to these directories. Check the parent directories as well, testenv must have at least r-x permissions on /users/nisole/twikinvisible, and rwx on data etc.

Note that you are running Perl 5.8, see the Known Issues page for this release for a link - may not matter but could be an issue if using locales.

-- RichardDonkin - 19 Feb 2003

Matt:

 ls -la /users/nisole/twikinvisible/data
total 74
drwxrwxr-x   8 nisole   wwwtwiki     512 Feb 11 15:21 ./
drwxr-xr-x   4 nisole   users        512 Feb 11 12:40 ../
-rwxrwxr-x   1 nisole   wwwtwiki      25 Feb 11 15:21 .htpasswd*
-rwxrwxr-x   1 nisole   users        210 Feb 11 15:21 .htpasswd%*
drwxrwxr-x   2 nisole   wwwtwiki    1024 Feb  6 17:04 _default/
-rwxrwxr-x   1 nisole   wwwtwiki       0 Feb  2 02:13 debug.txt*
drwxrwxr-x   2 nisole   wwwtwiki    2560 Feb  6 17:04 Know/
-rw-rw-r--   1 webmast  www         7018 Feb 19 00:19 log200302.txt
drwxrwxr-x   2 nisole   wwwtwiki    2560 Feb  6 17:05 Main/
-rwxrwxr-x   1 nisole   wwwtwiki    3419 Aug 13  2001 mime.types*
drwxrwxr-x   2 nisole   wwwtwiki    1024 Feb  6 17:05 Sandbox/
drwxrwxr-x   2 nisole   wwwtwiki    1024 Feb  6 17:05 Trash/
drwxrwxr-x   2 nisole   wwwtwiki   13312 Feb 18 16:29 TWiki/
-rwxrwxr-x   1 nisole   wwwtwiki       0 Feb  2 02:13 warning.txt*

Richard:

I've changed the locale to "C".

I've checked the permissions: drwxrwxr-x 8 nisole wwwtwiki 512 Feb 11 15:21 data/

-- OlivierNisole - 19 Feb 2003

Change the owner of your TWiki web directories from nisole to webmast, or add webmast to the wwwtwiki group and you should be fine. Do the same to .htpasswd, debug.txt and warning.txt.

-- PeterThoeny - 22 Feb 2003

The bad news are ...

1. As I'm not a sys-admin I can't change nisole to webmast
2. webmast is in the wwwtwiki group!

-- OlivierNisole - 03 Mar 2003 (sorry, I forgot my password)

If you do not have the permission ask a sys-admin to do it for you.

Visit ChangePasswords.

-- PeterThoeny - 03 Mar 2003

Ok, I'll see what I can do with the sys-admin.

But, I don't understand why webmast has to own the files to change them. Isn't it enough that it has got the rwx rights as a member of the wwwtwiki group?

-- OlivierNisole - 05 Mar 2003

Strange things happens sometimes........

Yesterday, I read another thread that suggested to use chmo ugo+w on the .htpasswd file. So I did it, modifying

• -rwxrwxr-x 1 nisole wwwtwiki 25 Feb 11 15:21 .htpasswd*

• -rwxrwxrwx 1 nisole wwwtwiki ...

This suggests that webmast wasn't in the wwwtwiki group. But a cat /etc/group |grep wwwtwiki show me that webmast is in this group!

Then I tried to chmod 775 the .htpasswd to revert it to the previous state:

• -rwxrwxr-x 1 nisole wwwtwiki ...

The strange thing is that I still can register new users! Don't ask me why, please!

-- OlivierNisole - 07 Mar 2003

Something strange going on here... I can only suggest reading up on Unix groups on Solaris, and asking in TWikiOnSolaris perhaps - there is a concept of primary as well as secondary groups, so looking in /etc/group may not be enough. The id command is the best way to check, as used by testenv.

Perhaps something else was changed at the same time that caused this to work? In any case, testenv is happy in that its test-write to a new file in data directory works. There are still a couple of warnings about RCS and GNU diff, see TWikiOnSolaris for links that may help.

-- RichardDonkin - 08 Mar 2003