Question

Can partial authentication be used with the Dakar (4.0.2) release? I recently upgraded our site from the Cairo (04 Sep 2004) to the Dakar 4.0.2 release. Our basic site is running, but I no longer see the flags in twiki.cfg or localsite.cfg that I had used in the past to turn on this feature ($doRememberRemoteUser, $remoteUserFilename). Can these simply be added to either twiki.cfg or localsite.cfg? If so, should they be in the $cfg{varname} format?

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-- TWikiGuest - 04 May 2006

Answer

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-- TWikiGuest - 04 May 2006

Just to be clear partial authentication, I'm refering to "Tracking by IP address" which was an experimental (but working) feature in the Cairo wiki release and described in its TwikiUserAuthentication topic.

-- RobStephens - 04 May 2006

With TWiki 4.0.2, you don't have to directly edit configuration files, the preferred way is to use your browser and bin/configure.

The configuration variables which control session handling can be found in the section "Security setup". Per default, in 4.0.2 Sessions are tracked with cookies (needs CPAN modules CGI::Session and CGI::Cookie), but you can fallback to the Cairo method by checking {Sessions}{MapIP2SID}. The texts above the various options should guide you whether you really want that.

-- HaraldJoerg - 04 May 2006