Question

When I try to register a new user, I get the error message:

"Error registering user (NewUserName)

There has been a problem adding your user id to the Password system. "

However, the user name and encrypted passwords is successfully added to the .htpasswd file. I can even go to the "change password page" and successfully change my password. But I can never actually login, because the user account isn't activated.

Any help would really be appreciated.

Environment

-- MaxPar - 24 Apr 2008

Answer

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Turns out that RCS wasn't working properly. So, if you ever get this error, check to make sure that RCS is working properly. You can also just try using RCSLite or whatever the built in version's name is, and see if that fixes it.

-- MaxPar - 24 Apr 2008

-- MaxPar - 24 Apr 2008

I'm having exactly this problem. How do I check to make sure that RCS is working properly? (And how is that affecting registration....?)

-- ChrisWestin - 18 Dec 2008

Check the file permissions and ownership of your twiki/data/Main/TWikiUsers.txt and .txt,v files.

In case you upgraded from an older TWiki version, make sure to unlock the RCS files, see TWikiUpgradeGuide#Copy_your_old_webs_to_new_TWiki

-- PeterThoeny - 18 Dec 2008

This isn't an upgrade, its a fresh install. I just unzipped the distribution, then used a chown -R apache:apache, as suggested by the installation instructions. TWikiUsers.txt and .txt,v are owned by apache:apache. Perms for TWikiUsers.txt are -rw-r--r--, TWikiUsers.txt,v (and all other *.txt,v files) are -r--r--r--. What should they be?

-- ChrisWestin - 18 Dec 2008

Solved. See my note in HtpasswdFileNotUpdating.

-- ChrisWestin - 19 Dec 2008