Question

I have a twiki with fairly restricted access; several webs deny access to TWikiGuest, and require individuals to log in. When users hit Backlinks on restricted webs, the search fails; according to TWiki logs (/var/lib/twiki/log/...), the search program always runs as TWikiGuest, which is probably why the failure. The Backlinks search works in webs where TWikiGuest has access. Can this be changed - can I set search to run under the logged-in user's ID? How?

Environment

-- EdwardPiou - 23 Jul 2005

Answer

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You need to track users since the search and view scripts are not authenticated. This can be done by IP address (see TWikiUserAuthentication or with a session tracker plugin.

-- PeterThoeny - 23 Jul 2005

Actually, I had "view" set to be authenticated; your answer made me realize I could solve this problem by setting "search" to be authenticated in .htaccess. Now, the backlinks works.

-- EdwardPiou - 23 Jul 2005