Question

The USERNAME and WIKINAME variables continue to say guest & TwikiGuest respectively, even when we are signed on, though the signature generated for an edit is correct.

We have recently reorganised the location of the TWiki installation, but I'm not sure if that is relevant. The new setup does have some sort of teething problems - edits sometimes get lost & have to be reapplied, I'm not sure why.

Could the problem be that our users are not compelled to sign on until edit, so when they view TWiki at first its as TWikiGuest & they only change to the "rreal user" on edit, so is this setting "frozen" in when TWiki starts? If so what is the edit function using?

Environment

-- ChrisHogan - 28 Jul 2003

Answer

It looks like edit is authenticated, but view is not. Please read "Authentication Options" in TWikiUserAuthentication

-- PeterThoeny - 29 Jul 2003

Oops! I have viewauth & "everything" set, but not $doRememberRemoteUser, sorry!

-- ChrisHogan - 29 Jul 2003