Question

I upgraded from TWiki3 and am having an issue with new registrations.

When I try to register a new user, I get the message: You are already registered

You cannot register twice, the name 'guest' is already registered.

When I look at TWikiUsers I notice that TWikiGuest has the name 'guest', however, I did not enter in 'guest' anywhere on the registration form.

I was wondering where TWiki is getting the 'guest' string from since I did not enter it ? What field on the twiki registration screen provides that information?

Updated: I found that I had a hidden field on the form Twk1LoginName" with the value of USERNAME (surrounded by percents).

In TWiki3 this variable was being populate with the users login name, where/how is this done in TWiki4? I used to force a user to auth by having a hidden search for with the 'all public webs' option, but now that doesn't seem to force a login.

Thanks for any info.

Environment

-- EricHanson - 21 Jul 2006

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.

"guest" is system generated. TWiki needs at least one user, the default user.

Search no longer forces an auth. However you could %INCLUDE a page that requires auth.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 21 Aug 2006

I forgot to update this one, turns out that I was not setting a hidden field correctly. It is the "Twk1LoginName" field that I had to set with the correct environment variable (since we use external auth).

-- EricHanson - 24 Aug 2006