Question

• TWiki version: "01 Feb 2003"
• Perl version: Unix Perl 5.005_03
• Web server version: Apache 1.3.27
• Server OS: SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-17 sun4u sparc
• Web browser version: IE 6.0
• Client OS: Windows NT

We have looked throughout TWiki documentation and support questions but we cannot quite find the answer to this one.

We are configured for partial authentication and have set ALLOWTOPICVIEW for specific topics. However, there is no prompt for login at the view-restricted topics ... so if the user has not already authenticated to edit/attach some other topic (i.e., still a Guest), he/she is simply shown the message "no permission to access ...".

It's curious that a user is prompted for login for ALLOWTOPICCHANGE access but not for ALLOWTOPICVIEW. What are we doing wrong?

-- NancyTurner - 28 May 2003

Answer

You do not get prompted to login because the view script is not authenticated. Read No login to view unless necessary; require login to edit in TWikiUserAuthentication for possible options. For partial authentication do the viewauth setting, as described in Authenticate and Restricting Selected Webs Only in TWikiAccessControl

-- PeterThoeny - 29 May 2003