Question

What is the use of NobodyGroup ? The text says "Used to prevent dangerous actions e.g. renaming TWikiPreferences - put NobodyGroup as the only group allowed to rename a topic and it can't be renamed.". I did not understand this. Whom should I put in this group ?

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-- ChengappaCB - 17 Oct 2005

Answer

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Not sure what part of the text you are referring to, but under twiki you can set groups for your twiki site (see TWikiGroups) then you can set permissions to a particular twiki topic,web or site (see TWikiAccessControl) to a single user or to a group. If you set a NobodyGroup to null - nothing to the right of the equal sign of the GROUP variable - , and set access control for a twiki topic,web or site to that group, then only the users listed in $superAdminGroup variable in lib/TWiki.cfg can access to those topics, webs or site, thus, limiting the risks.

-- AntonioVega - 18 Oct 2005

This group is not really needed, not sure where you found it. Restrict access to the TWikiAdminGroup if needed.

-- PeterThoeny - 20 Oct 2005

I think I got it. Thanks a lot.

-- ChengappaCB - 20 Oct 2005