Question

I have twiki installed and apparently working on Windows XP using Apache 1.3.29 and perl 5.8.0 from cygwin.

I have followed the instructions to set up basic authentication when editing pages and this seems to work. However, when using the TWikiRegistrationPub form, users are added to the system but the .htpasswd file is not updated to include their password.

If I manually use the htpasswd.exe program from Apache to add the user then all authentication works as expected.

After poking around the AnsweredQuestions here some posts indicated that it may be a permissions issue. I've checked the permissions, and the .htpasswd file is set to -rwxrwxrwx and is owned by SYSTEM so I do not see that as an issue.

Any suggestions?

Environment

-- MichaelRichmond - 07 Nov 2003

I have the same Problem with Debian. Two machines, one installed by hand and one Debian pakage. Both Debian woody stable, apache 1.3.26-0woody3, perl 5.6.1-8.3, twiki Version 20030201-3

The .htpasswd is used by Apache, and i am able to change the password through cgi-bin/twiki/view/TWiki/ChangePassword but when Registering through twiki/view/TWiki/TWikiRegistrationPub or TWikiRegistration the .htpasswd is not touched (even filedate stays). -rw-rw-rw- 1 www-data www-data 45 Nov 26 10:45 /var/lib/twiki/data/.htpasswd

changing it to -rwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data doesnot change the symptoms.

-- HolgerJeromin - 26 Nov 2003

sorry, my fault. i have used Registration and not RegistrationPub, wich is now working.

-- HolgerJeromin - 27 Nov 2003

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