Question

Having set up a TWiki at work, I am having problems having it recognise individual users. When I visit http://twiki.org, the message Hello Andy Edwards appears in the side bar. However, in my local twiki, the message doesn't appear, and the home screen always says 'WelcomeGuest'. Otherwise, user authentication seems to work - it asks for a username/password when i try to edit topics, so no problems there. Am I missing something obvious?

Environment

-- AndyEdwards - 21 Nov 2005

Answer

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.

Perhaps you need to install the SessionPlugin.

-- JoachimBlum - 21 Nov 2005

Or enable session tracking of users by remembering the IP address. See TWiki.cfg

The problem is that users are only authenticated for edit; the view script still thinks you are a guest. See "Partial authentication" in TWikiUserAuthentication.

-- PeterThoeny - 21 Nov 2005