Question

Hello,

i did some tests with the web- and topicpermission-settings.

I set ALLOWWEBCHANGE = NobodyGroup in the WebPreferences and ALLOWWEBCHANGE = TestUsersName in some TestTopic.

The FINALPREFERENCES Variable was set to ALLOWWEBCHANGE (and many other values like in the standart distribution set)

The Text above FINALPREFERENCES reads: _Web preferences that are not allowed to be overridden by user or topic preferences" so I think ALLOWWEBCHANGE must not be overridden by ALLOWTOPICCHANGE.

But why? Did I misunderstood this thing?

Environment

-- MathiasReiche - 25 Jan 2007

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.

Yes, you did. You can't apply FINALPREFERENCES to access controls. They are not preferences; they just happen to share the same syntax for setting them (unfortunately).

-- CrawfordCurrie - 26 Jan 2007

Clarification: The ALLOWWEBCHANGE setting in the WebPreferences prevents uninvited from changing topics in that web. An invited person however can edit a topic and change the access control of that topic with a ALLOWTOPICCHANGE setting.

-- PeterThoeny - 26 Jan 2007

Following this the HowToMakeTwikiReadOnly solution would not work.
I tried it and setting ALLOWWEBCHANGE in TWikiPreferences and FINALIZING does not make for a read only TWiki

-- PeterJones - 18 Aug 2009

That is correct. A lot of code refactoring work was going on in 4.0 release, the ALLOWWEBCHANGE in TWikiPreferences functionality unfortunately got lost. Workaround: Lock down each web.

-- PeterThoeny - 2009-08-18