Question

We have TWiki deployed at my Company. A co-worker, an engineering manager, says he "hates TWiki". When pressed for a reason he says:

"I turn off Cookies. I don't like programs that write things on my system. And TWiki asks for my password over and over, several times for every page I want to read. It drives me nuts. I hate it."

We don't use read authentication in our installation.

I have never been asked to authenticate myself to read pages in our Company Wiki (in fact, I would like to be able to log in at will because then I'd be using my personal, preferred configuration). Thus, I cannot imagine how this co-worker is being challenged for name and password just to access and read a page, let alone as he claims, every time.

What's going on? What can I do?

This is hindering our ability to use Wiki internallyas a valuable tool.

Environment

-- VickiBrown - 01 Sep 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.

which browser is he using?

-- WillNorris - 05 Sep 2005

see also CairoAsksForPasswordTwice, SafariBrowserIssues, and UnresolvedVarsInURL; have you set USERLAYOUTURL and USERSTYLEURL to %PUBURL%/%TWIKIWEB%/PatternSkin/empty.css ? (this is one of the KnownIssuesOfTWiki01Sep2004)

-- WillNorris - 05 Sep 2005

It is Safari and THANK YOU to WillNorris. My co-worker reports:

> Wow, you fixed it. The darn alert boxes and user/password
> authentications have gone away! Good job. Heck, I may start using it. :Q

-- VickiBrown - 06 Sep 2005