Question

I have passed the testing by "configuration" for my TWiki. But, I cannot change the TWikiPreferences page and I get an "Access Denied" error message.

And it shows me it is the "TWikiContributor" on the top of the page. I am wondering if there is a login for "Administrator" or "Root".

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OK

Environment

-- ChenghuanJia - 11 Dec 2005

Answer

If you answer a question - or have a question you asked answered by someone - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status is in a drop-down list below the edit box.

Looking at your site "configure" profile, it appears that you are logging in turned-off.

Authentication TWiki supports different ways of responding when the user asks to log in (or is asked to log in as the result of an access control fault). They are:

1. none - Don't support logging in, all users have access to everything.
2. TWiki::Client::TemplateLogin - Redirect to the login template, which asks for a username and password in a form. Does not cache the ID in the browser, so requires client sessions to work.
3. TWiki::Client::ApacheLogin - Redirect to an '...auth' script for which Apache can be configured to ask for authorization information. Does not require client sessions, but works best with them enabled.

{LoginManager} none

-- SteveRJones - 11 Dec 2005

Are you editing TWiki.TWikiPreferences or Main.TWikiPreferences?

From Dakar we don't edit TWiki.TWikiPreferences

-- MartinCleaver - 11 Dec 2005

Thanks, now I enable the login for my TWiki, but how to set my login as Administrator?

-- ChenghuanJia - 12 Dec 2005

Put your WikiName into your TWikiAdminGroup.

-- PeterThoeny - 12 Dec 2005

Hello, Gentlemen!

Would you be so kind as to put this the TWikiInstallationGuide? I.e.: turn on authentication, create a user for yourself, then edit the admin group. I was confused by this too.

I'd had to build Perl on the system where I installed TWiki. I spent a few hours thinking I'd made some mistake there, since the present instructions imply that with Twiki is ready for preference changes as is.

Thanks!

--Dave

-- TWikiGuest - 14 Apr 2006

Thanks for the feedback, I added Bugs:Item2108.

-- PeterThoeny - 15 Apr 2006

The problem I'm having is that I can't seem to add a user. As soon as I enable authentication, I am TwikiGuest and can't change anything. I've spent a few hours trying various way around this and running multiple searches on this site, and looking at the documentation and I can't figure out how to create a user for myself, much less add it to the admin group.

-- MattHotujec - 09 May 2006

I was having problems with the Verification piece of registering myself. I turned that off. Now, when I try to register, I get the same error I did upon trying to verify my registration:

Mail to: ERROR: Can't send mail using Net::SMTP. Relaying denied at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/CGI/Carp.pm line 314

CGI::Carp::realdie('ERROR Can\'t send mail using Net::SMTP. Relaying denied\x{a}') called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/CGI/Carp.pm line 385 CGI::Carp::die('ERROR Can\'t send mail using Net::SMTP. Relaying denied\x{a}') called at /srv/www/htdocs/twiki/lib/TWiki/Net.pm line 300 TWiki::Net::_sendEmailByNetSMTP('TWiki::Net=HASH(0x818d30c)', 'Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 10:50:24 Local\x{a}From: TWiki Administrat...') called at /srv/www/htdocs/twiki/lib/TWiki/Net.pm line 191 TWiki::Net::__ANON__() called at /srv/www/htdocs/twiki/lib/CPAN/lib///Error.pm line 387 eval {...} called at /srv/www/htdocs/twiki/lib/CPAN/lib///Error.pm line 379 Error::subs::try('CODE(0x8ac5f18)', 'HASH(0x8c1ad4c)') called at /srv/www/htdocs/twiki/lib/TWiki/Net.pm line 207 TWiki::Net::sendEmail('TWiki::Net=HASH(0x818d30c)', 'From: TWiki Administrator <webmaster@example.com>\x{a}To: TWiki A...') called at /srv/www/htdocs/twiki/lib/TWiki/UI/Register.pm line 964 TWiki::UI::Register::_emailRegistrationConfirmations('TWiki=HASH(0x81715f4)', 'HASH(0x8ad2190)') called at /srv/www/htdocs/twiki/lib/TWiki/UI/Register.pm line 754 TWiki::UI::Register::finish('TWiki=HASH(0x81715f4)') called at /srv/www/htdocs/twiki/lib/TWiki/UI/Register.pm line 373 TWiki::UI::Register::registerAndNext('TWiki=HASH(0x81715f4)', '/srv/www/htdocs/twiki/data/RegistrationApprovals') called at /srv/www/htdocs/twiki/lib/TWiki/UI/Register.pm line 82 TWiki::UI::Register::register_cgi('TWiki=HASH(0x81715f4)') called at /srv/www/htdocs/twiki/lib/TWiki/UI.pm line 97 TWiki::UI::__ANON__() called at /srv/www/htdocs/twiki/lib/CPAN/lib///Error.pm line 387 eval {...} called at /srv/www/htdocs/twiki/lib/CPAN/lib///Error.pm line 379 Error::subs::try('CODE(0x8ade760)', 'HASH(0x8ad1e78)') called at /srv/www/htdocs/twiki/lib/TWiki/UI.pm line 146 TWiki::UI::run('CODE(0x8316e34)') called

Too many failures sending mail

Errors: %PARAM2%

It appears as thought it's failing because my SMTP server doesn't allow relaying. I've been trying to change the WIKIWEBMASTER e-mail address in TWiki/TWikiPreferences, but I get an error there as well that seems to do with authentication (when I had it set to none). With authentication enabled, I can't even try to change it because it requires me to be logged in.

-- MattHotujec - 09 May 2006

I was contacted off the wiki and have my problem solved now. Sorry for the excessive posting.

-- MattHotujec - 09 May 2006

what is the resolution ?

-- GowriRao - 29 Nov 2006

Am having the same Net:SMTP problem. Would like to know how it was resolved?

-- PriyaNIyer - 24 Oct 2007

please post a new question with exact details.

-- PeterThoeny - 27 Oct 2007