Question

i use a custom authen setup, so I have LoginManager set to none. when hitting my 4.0.5 installation, it recognizes me. with my 4.1.0 installation, it sees me as guest. When I browse over to 4.0.5, and then back to 4.1.0, then 4.1.0 recognizes me. The TWIKISID cookie does not change through this. I'm not sure if that makes a difference. My custom authen is a PerlAuthenHandler and does "return ($user_name, "Permission granted", undef);" on a successful login. This has worked until 4.1.0. Note that I do have 4.0.5 running off of a perl 5.8.0 install and TWiki 4.1.0 running off of a perl 5.8.8 install.

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-- MarkKeisler - 25 Jan 2007

Answer

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It seems that the behavior for auth changed between 4.0.5 and 4.1.0 so that setting LoginManager to none disables any login (TWiki won't pay attention to REMOTE_USER). Somewhat of a case of RTFM, but might be something that should be highlighted in the release notes.

-- MarkKeisler - 25 Jan 2007

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