Question

Hello,

i did some tests with the web- and topicpermission-settings.

I set ALLOWWEBCHANGE = NobodyGroup in the WebPreferences and ALLOWWEBCHANGE = TestUsersName in some TestTopic.

The FINALPREFERENCES Variable was set to ALLOWWEBCHANGE (and many other values like in the standart distribution set)

The Text above FINALPREFERENCES reads: _Web preferences that are not allowed to be overridden by user or topic preferences" so I think ALLOWWEBCHANGE must not be overridden by ALLOWTOPICCHANGE.

But why? Did I misunderstood this thing?

Environment

-- MathiasReiche - 25 Jan 2007

Answer

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Yes, you did. You can't apply FINALPREFERENCES to access controls. They are not preferences; they just happen to share the same syntax for setting them (unfortunately).

-- CrawfordCurrie - 26 Jan 2007

Clarification: The ALLOWWEBCHANGE setting in the WebPreferences prevents uninvited from changing topics in that web. An invited person however can edit a topic and change the access control of that topic with a ALLOWTOPICCHANGE setting.

-- PeterThoeny - 26 Jan 2007

Following this the HowToMakeTwikiReadOnly solution would not work.
I tried it and setting ALLOWWEBCHANGE in TWikiPreferences and FINALIZING does not make for a read only TWiki

-- PeterJones - 18 Aug 2009

That is correct. A lot of code refactoring work was going on in 4.0 release, the ALLOWWEBCHANGE in TWikiPreferences functionality unfortunately got lost. Workaround: Lock down each web.

-- PeterThoeny - 2009-08-18