Question

Hi all,

I am easily able to control topic access on the Settings page for a topic. However, when I set my Web Preferences for a web and attempt to control access, it simply does not work.

I have several webs that need to restrict access to a particular group, so to attempt to limit who can view a particular web, I have set the following:

• Set ALLOWWEBVIEW = Main.MarketingGroup, Main.TWikiAdminGroup

And yet, anyone is able to view the web. This does not seem to be working.

In another web, I want to limit who has the ability to create a new topic within that web, so I set:

• Set ALLOWWEBCHANGE = Main.TWikiAdminGroup, Main.EducationGroup

FYI, I am using "Main.GroupName" as that seems to be the only notation where TWiki recognizes the group name.

Am I missing something?

When I make these changes in the Web Preferences, and I view the SitePermissions page, it does not show ANY permission restrictions for any of the webs.

Any assistance or suggestions are gratefully welcomes.

-sjh

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-- StevenHall - 31 Oct 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.

Well, happily enough, I can answer my own question....one of my higher-up webs (Main) had a preference setting to block the ability to edit the access at the local web level:

Set FINALPREFERENCES = NOSEARCHALL, ATTACHFILESIZELIMIT, WIKIWEBMASTER, WEBCOPYRIGHT, WEBTOPICLIST, DENYWEBVIEW, ALLOWWEBVIEW, DENYWEBCHANGE, DENYWEBRENAME, ALLOWWEBRENAME, ALLOWTOPICCHANGE

Once I removed "ALLOWTOPICCHANGE" I was able to change that setting in the webs where I need to limit changes.

-- StevenHall - 06 Nov 2007