Question

I'm temporarily using authentication based on IP until our programmers can figure out how to get LDAP to work. I've copied the code from WebLeftBar that says "Hello UserName, not you?" etc. into all of my WebLeftBars. I've also copied LogoutAndLogin page into my own TWiki web. And copied TWikiRegistrationPub to TWikiRegistration. So it should be all setup to handle registering with passwords and authenticating based on IP. Authorization is also setup so that unregistered users can't view anything. Registered users can't view anything until I assign them to a user group. (Fortunately I won't have to go through all of this once our programmers have finished the auto creation of groups from LDAP). Oh, I know this is apparently less of an issue with Dakar, but for reasons too complicated to go into right now it will be at least several months before I can upgrade and need this to work now.

What I need to be able to do is login from a new machine that I haven't been on before (i.e. a new IP address). I get the unregistered message, but when I go to one of the links in the oopsnotwikiuser message and get the registration window with the Login on the WebLeftBar, it doesn't give me the popup window to put in my WikiName and password. I need to have some way of genuinely logging in, i.e. giving it my username and password. I get this popup window on TWiki.org, so I know it is possible. What am I missing to get that popup? Once I've figured that out, I want to edit the oopsnotwikiuser message and put in a link for logging in so that previously registered people can get in from a different IP.

Any help is appreciated as always.

-- AmandaSmith - 08 Mar 2006

Environment

-- AmandaSmith - 08 Mar 2006

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

Edit to bump topic.

-- AmandaSmith - 16 Mar 2006

Make sure that edit, save, attach, upload, viewauth etc scripts are under BasicAuthentication. This will prompt for a login. Authentication can be done against a local .htaccess in twiki/data. See TWikiUserAuthentication

Once you are logged in there is no way to properly logout besides restarting the browser (a limitation of BasicAuthentication.)

-- PeterThoeny - 16 Mar 2006

However, if you upgrade to TWikiRelease04x00, you will gain the benifits of the new session tracking system.

-- SvenDowideit - 11 Apr 2006