Question

How to make a basic authentication work?

I can't seem to get passed the Login Prompt. It keeps prompting for password. I followed the exact steps in TWikiInstallationGuide and TWikiAccessControl step by step, and still can't make it work. - The Registration part worked fine. It took my new Wikiname, and inserted the password in /twiki/data/.htpasswd. - However, I failed to Login as if the password didn't exist for this user. - I also switched the the method to "plain" to make sure that the correct password get saved, and it did.

# vi /twiki/lib/TWiki.cfg

if( $OS eq "WINDOWS" ) { $htpasswdEncoding = "plain";

Correct file permission is verified: $ ls -l .ht* -rw-r--r-- 1 SYSTEM None 516 Sep 28 11:32 .htaccess -rw-rw-rw- 1 SYSTEM None 101 Sep 28 16:32 .htpasswd

$ cat .htpasswd TWikiGuest:zK.G.uuPi39Qg DongDo3:{SHA}+pvrmeQCmtWmYVOZ57uuITVghrM= DongDo2:myplaintextpw

What else am I missing? i can't log on using neither DongDo3 or DongDo2 (with sha1 or plain method accordingly). Thanks in advance.

Environment

-- DongDo - 29 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.

You need to also reference :

• TWikiUserAuthentication
• TWikiAccessControl

-- SteveRJones - 29 Sep 2005