Question

Hello ... I recently installed a TWiki on our local web site, and things are working good - for the most part. Web-level access controls seem to be working fine (DENYWEBCHANGE, ALLOWWEBCHANGE, etc). However, I've yet to manage to get the topic-level controls to "take". As per the documentaion, I'm putting the line: "* Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = JeffTest", but other users are still denied. Likewise, setting DENYTOPICCHANGE doesn't stop anything. .

• TWiki version: 01 Dec 2001
• Web server: Apache 1.3.20
• Server OS: Solaris 8
• Web browser: IE5/Netscape 4.76
• Client OS: Solaris 8/Win NT 4

-- JeffGentry - 07 Feb 2002

Answer

Are you prefixing the user name with Main.? It should look something like:

* Set DENYTOPICCHANGE = Main.SomeBadBoy, ....

-- RichardDonkin - 08 Feb 2002

Yes ... for instance the "link" works fine from the WikiName. So, for instance if there was a SomeBadBoy on this system and one took out the nop tags in there, what you wrote should deny Mr BadBoy from editing this topic, yes?

-- JeffGentry - 08 Feb 2002