Question

What is the best way to prevent changes to the TWiki web? In TWiki 3 I tried to prevent topic and web changes by any but the AdminGroup but that broke registration.

I want to allow (nay, require) registration; this necessitates that I permit some changes to the Main and TWiki webs. But those changes should be programmatic, it seems to me.

I want to forbid anyone not in the Adnin group from using the Edit link in our Main, TWiki, or Know webs.

I realize that "community involvement" is a hallmark of the TWiki philosophy but I'm getting tired of painting over grafitti in the webs that we consider to be "read only".

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-- VickiBrown - 19 Mar 2006

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.

I have my TWiki web owned by a different user. Apache can't touch it.

Even plugin settings I keep in TWikiPreferences.

Not sure it works with plugins that write data into pub, e.g. TagMePlugin

-- MartinCleaver - 20 Mar 2006

so long as you (or another Admin) register new users, you can quite successfully set the Main web as read only for all but TWikiAdminGroup.

-- SvenDowideit - 05 Apr 2006