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Manage Users
Register users on your TWiki site; change/reset/install passwords; remove user accounts
Authentication and Access Control
Register User
It is not necessary to have user home pages in the TWiki system for Authentication to work - see TWikiUserAuthentication for details.
- TWikiRegistration is for users to fill out a form
- NewUserTemplate can be changed to customize user home pages, it can optionally use the UserForm to define user fields as meta data
- BulkRegistration is for administrators to use to set up one or more accounts: either from a table or from an external file
Change, Reset and Install Passwords
- ChangePassword is for users who can remember their password and want to change it
- ResetPassword is for users who cannot remember their password; a system generated password is e-mailed to them
- BulkResetPassword if for administrators who want to reset many passwords at once
Removing User Accounts
To remove a user account (FredQuimby, who logs in as "fred"):
- If you are using a
.htpasswd file, edit the .htpasswd file to delete the line starting fred:
- Remove the
FredQuimby - fred line from the Main.TWikiUsers topic
- Remove
FredQuimby from all groups and from all the ALLOWWEB/ALLOWTOPIC... declarations, if any.
Note: If you fail to do this you risk creating a security hole, as the next user to register with the wikiname FredQuimby will inherit the old FredQuimby's permissions.
- [optional] Delete their user topic Main.FredQuimby.
Note: Consider leaving the user topic file in place so their past signatures and revision author entries don't end up looking like AnUncreatedTopic?. If you want to make it clear the user is no longer with the organization or has been banished, replace the topic content with a note to that effect. The existance of the UserName topic should also prevent that user name from being re-used, sealing the potential security hole regarding inherited permissions..
Related Topics: AdminDocumentationCategory
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