Question

How do I go about setting a password for TWikiGuest? I see it listed as a solution for closing access to registration, but nobody explains how to do it. I don't know the existing login/password, so using ChangePassword won't work. There's no email address set for TWikiGuest, so I can't use ResetPassword. I'm not really sure how to use InstallPassword at all, because it requires me to generate the encrypted password myself. I'm using SHA1 auth.

Environment

• configure.cgi.htm: JohnMichelau Twiki config

-- JohnMichelau - 03 Dec 2006

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I found that the login for TWikiGuest is 'guest', from Twiki.cfg. I used htpasswd.exe to generate a password for guest and manually placed it in my .htpasswd.txt file. This made it so that the TWikiGuest had a password, but my TWiki didn't really login TWikiGuest properly. After logging in, the left bar still showed "Log In" and "Register". Also, it continued to allow the TWikiGuest to view sites without logging in (I think the issues are related).

As a workaround, I created a new user, RegisterMe, and gave it a password. It's purpose is such that I will give out the RegisterMe name and password to whomever I would like to be able to register. I then set DENYWEBVIEW for TWikiGuest in all webs.

I'm still going to leave this open for a couple days to see if anybody has any comments on my solution, and why my original effort didn't work as expected.

-- JohnMichelau - 03 Dec 2006

in the htpasswd.txt, the format is... name:pass

also, the login problem sounds like sessions are not set correctly in the configure

try this... {UseClientSessions} = 1 {Sessions}{Dir} = /path/for/sessions {Sessions}{UseIPMatching} = 1 {PasswordManager} = HtpasswdUser

-- SteveStark - 04 Dec 2006