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TWiki: De-Registering to Allow Re-Registration

<noautolink> This page is to remind myself (or anybody) of the manual procedure to remove a TWiki user registration. _I put it here in the Abiword web so it would be less likely to get lost, especially during an upgrade._

In this version of TWiki, the only way to let a user change his (or create a new) password is to allow him to re-register. To do that, someone must:

• delete the users home page
• remove the users entry from the Main.TWikiUser page
• delete the users entry from the .htpasswd file (requies an administrator)

On newer TWikis, there are tools available to change or reset your password--see:

• TWikiChangePassword TWiki.org:TWiki.TWikiChangePassword -- on twiki.org
• [[TWiki.ResetPassword]]
• [[TWiki.ChangePassword]]

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Notes

Part of an email I wrote to Mark Gilbert: Some links--note some of these are on twiki.org--if you actually use them (i.e., confirm they work with the version of TWiki installed at AbiSource), we can duplicate the pages on the AbiWord TWiki:

• http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiChangePassword -- I think this is a very useful page, it summarizes what a user must do to change or reset his password, and also summarizes what the admin must do to install a new password (like when a user mails him his encrypted password).

I am having trouble finding the page that describes the (old) manual way to delete a user (so he can reregister) but Im almost 100% certain it is as I described in my first email (rewriting as bullets) (oops, except your home page and so forth is in the Main web):

• delete the userss home page from the Main web -- I think you have to do this as root, or at least from a command line rather than from "within" TWiki (Your (old) home pages URL is http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MarkGilbert)

Aside on webs: almost everything we add to the AbiWord TWiki (re AbiWord) goes into the AbiWord web -- the web name is the second last "piece" of a (simple) URL -- i.e., the following URL is a page (named WebChanges) in the AbiWord web: http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/WebChanges. If you look around the server, you will find sub-directories in a TWiki "hierarchy" under a "data" subdirectory -- the next directories down are the webs. Pages are stored as <PageName>.txt, and <PageName>.txt,v for the RCS file in those directories (e.g., MarkGilbert.txt, and MarkGilbert.txt, v). (Attachments are stored somewhat similarly, but below pub instead of data, and there is a subdirectory named <PageName> for every page that has an attachment.)

• also in the Main web there is a page named TWikiUsers (i.e., TWikiUsers.txt) -- delete the name of the user (e.g., MarkGilbert) from that page (URL http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/TWikiUsers)

• finally, find the .htaccess (no, I guess it would be .htpassword file in the "TWiki hierarchy" and delete the users password (encrypted) from there.

Having written this, I will create a web page, hmm, maybe first over on WikiLearn (I can do it on the AbiWord TWiki too, Im just not certain where the best place is) -- Ill let you know after I create the page -- for a first draft Ill probably just copy and paste this page.

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Contributors

• () Main.RandyKramer - 09 Jul 2003
• _If you edit this page: add your name here; move this to the next line; and if youve used a comment marker (your initials in parenthesis), include it before your TWiki.WikiName._

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