Question

I'm able to register a user and authenticate this user (correct password is accepted, wrong is discarded), but after processing login-page, I'm still TWikiGuest - why?

Not that I didn't find a rpm for CGI::Session (this is the only CPAN-module missing), so I disabled {UseClientSessions}. Other settings are {LoginManager} = TWiki.Client.TemplateLogin and {PasswordManager} = TWiki.Users.HtPasswdUser

Seems like CGI::Session must be in place, but TWiki-documentation says that it optional but not necessary! Who is right?

Some additional information:

Environment

-- TWikiGuest - 06 Jul 2006

Answer

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Please check AuthenticatedButStillTWikiGuest, this should supply the answer to your question. In short: You need sessions to have TWiki remember who you are.

-- HaraldJoerg - 06 Jul 2006

Thanks Harald for your help. I switch to ApacheLogin, an now Authentication is remembered. This means that I can now edit topics as logged in user, but the variable %TWikiUser% still returns TWikiGuest. I use SuSE 9.1 and didn't find a RPM for CGI::Session. As I'm not a perl and compilation guru and don't have sources installed on my machine, can anybody tell me where to get a appropriate RPM to use session-support.

-- AlexanderScholler - 07 Jul 2006

You could consider simply installing CpanContrib to make sure all needed CPAN libraries are in place (if you are not too fond of SuSE's package management).

-- SteffenPoulsen - 07 Jul 2006

Thank you Steffen, I didn't know this package

-- AlexanderScholler - 07 Jul 2006