Question

Hi,

I have installed Twiki succesfully & its working fine at the moment.

I have different webs for different Departments.So I need to register a new user to the different web for the security purpsoe.So in the registration page I have created drop down list for the Registration for user as per the Web he/she belong to( i mean department).

I am able to register the user in the main web but I want that in the specific Web not in main web.

I can see that user in main users list but I want that user only in Specific Web`s user list.

How can i achieve this? Is there any change in any of the configuration file?

I mean how a user can register to his/her choice web..not the main web?

Any help on this regard is much appreciated?

Thanks,

Sandeep Jadhav

Environment

-- SandeepJadhav - 02 Mar 2006

Answer

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TWiki is not designed for this setup. All users and groups are located in the Main web. This is actually quite flexible, since you can define FormattedSearch reports that list users of a department. Simply add a "Department" field to the registration form. (Oddly, the reistration form does not have this field by default, even though the TWikiMission has an intranet focus.)

-- PeterThoeny - 02 Mar 2006

An alternative that I use is to have groups that represent the departments and make the relevant web accessible only for the appropriate group.

The issue then is assigning the users to the groups.

How much do you trust your users?

The reason I ask this is that at one site the registration screen has been modified to supply tick-off boxes that control which groups the user is added to.

If TWiki supported Role Based Access Control (RBAC) instead of access control lists this would be a trivial exercise. RBAC is much more suited to business applications,

-- AntonAylward - 02 Mar 2006