Question

I have the server user name chiptuners_admin wich makes my server path looks like this: /home/chiptuners_admin/twiki.chiptuners.com/

The problem is that i need to register in TWiki as user chiptuners_admin to make the RCS work, but TWiki dosent support this user name! so is there a workaround to this ?

Environment

-- TWikiGuest - 10 Jun 2005

Answer

You do not need to register a user of that name. There is a difference between the Unix user under which the TWiki CGI script is run (e.g. chiptuners_admin), and the actual user behind the browser (e.g. JohnSmith). So, if user JohnSmith saves a topic, the CGI script will tell RCS that the user is JohnSmith, and RCS will lock the repository file as user chiptuners_admin.

Run the testenv script. You can use it to change the RCS lock user from the default to your chiptuners_admin.

For next time please provide more details on your environment and attach also some system files. The SupportGuidelines has more.

-- PeterThoeny - 11 Jun 2005