Question

I'm a little stumped by the whole login/user access setup. Do you really have to create users in .htpasswd to match every Twiki user if you want to do user-based access control? Or is there a way to automate the server-side end of it when creating users in Twiki registration?

Environment

-- CaseyJanss - 11 Mar 2005

Answer

The WebServer (in your case Apache) controls the authentication process of TWiki users. The .htaccess file in TWikis bin directory plays the important role for authenticating the users. If you have different services like IMAP or ldap already running in your network you can make use of those services by making changes in .htaccess.

-- SopanShewale - 14 Mar 2005

See details in TWikiUserAuthentication

-- PeterThoeny - 19 Mar 2005