Question

• TWiki version:01 Feb 2003
• Perl version:5.8.0
• Web server & version:Apache/2.0.40
• Server OS:RH linux 8.x
• Web browser & version:Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003
• Client OS:

This relates to any topic with the Var set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = TWikiAdminGroup ALLOWTOPICRENAME = TWikiAdminGroup. Why O why am I getting the Change Access Denied. Enclosed is the info of relivance. The expected behavior is correct, I go to edit the topic, the Login dialog box opens,I put the Admin username and PW in and it puts me into edit mode. I go to Save, it then gives me the Change Access Denied page??

My Testenv is all good SANS the $siteLocale:en_US.ISO-8859-1 Note: This TWiki.cfg parameter sets the site-wide locale - for example, de_AT.ISO-8859-1 where 'de' is the language code, 'AT' the country code and 'ISO-8859-1' is the character set. Use the locale -a command on your system to determine available locales. Warning: Unable to set locale to en_US.ISO-8859-1, actual locale is C - please test your locale settings.

* Seems benign

The account is regestered and the TwikiAdminGroup contains the name TWiki Administrator Group

Set GROUP = JayConway Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = TWikiAdminGroup

HELP

-- JayConway - 28 Apr 2003

Answer

Re: "I put the Admin username and PW in": Since you are the only user in the admin group you should login as user "JayConway" in case TWiki is managing users (based on .htaccess), or login with your Intranet user name (e.g. "jconway") in case TWiki is not managing user login (in which case the TWikiUsers topic should map from your Intrante user name to your WikiName like: * JayConway - jconway - 28 Apr 2003). See details in TWikiInstallationNotes and TWikiUserAuthentication.

-- PeterThoeny - 30 Apr 2003

Answer

RE: after spending a considerable amount of time and searching, Twiki was fine, it was the Gnuskin causing the issue. I stumbled on the answer after expanding my search requierment. Thanks for the reply. Now on to the pain of mod-perl

-- JayConway - 30 Apr 2003

Question

Re: Twiki was fine, it was the Gnuskin causing the issue. I stumbled on the answer after expanding my search requierment.

I'm having the same problem with GnuSkin and "* Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = TWikiAdminGroup". What was the answer that you found?

-- KirkStrauser - 08 Jul 2003

I'm having the problem with almost all skins. I've tried Ambar, Koala and Gnu. Thus I suspect it is a more general problem. Reverting to the default skin (by resetting the skin preference variable) removes the problem. I too would very much like to know a workaround or explanation of what is happening.

-- FinnSchiermer - 15 Oct 2003

It seems the script doing the save is not in authentified mode. Did you add

<Files "savemulti">
       require valid-user
</Files>

-- ColasNahaboo - 16 Oct 2003

Great, now I understand. Thanks.

-- FinnSchiermer - 17 Oct 2003

For AmbarSkin you need to add

<Files "ambarsave">
       require valid-user
</Files>

to your bin/.htaccess.

This file is essentially a copy of savemulti used by AmbarSkin.

-- RaviASV - 14 Nov 2003