Question

I am new to TWiki.

I am using PAM authentication through .htaccess for authentication on my test wiki site. I have created a new group called say, MyGroup, and in that group file, there is a line something like this:

Set GROUP = Main.testuser

I then create a new page and limit "ALLOWTOPICCHANGE" to group "Main.MyGroup".

The only way that "testuser" can modify the new topic is if I replace "Main.testuser" with just "testuser" in the group line.

Why is that?

Environment

-- JasonKeltz - 24 May 2007

Answer

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Jason, can you post some config details? I am trying to work out PAM on Apache 2.2.4 also and I can't find very much so far.

-- MatthewKoundakjian - 06 Jul 2007

it sounds like a similar issue to MapApacheUserWithDotToWikiUser - unless you set AllowLoginName in configure, TWiki assumes that the authorised login name is a WikiName, and that a topic of that names exists..

It would be interesting to see some more details of how you're configuring PAM auth thou.

-- SvenDowideit - 18 Aug 2007

Closing this after more than 30 days of inactivity. Please feel free to reopen the question.

-- PeterThoeny - 03 Oct 2007

For a PAM recipe you can take a look at TWiki.AuthenticationCookbook

-- AndrewPantyukhin - 11 Dec 2007