I am trying to upgrade my TWiki from Beta4 to Beta6, and to add the ActionTrackerPlugin from TWiki:Plugins.TWiki, where it says: "Untar and run the installer script".

In a plain Dakar Beta6, the TWiki web is writeable only for TWiki admins, which looks fine. However, ActionTrackerPlugin_installer.pl explicitly identifies himself as {DefaultUserLogin}, and subsequently fails:

AccessControlException: Access to CHANGE TWiki.ActionTrackerPlugin for TWikiGuest is denied. access not allowed on web

Ideologically I'd prefer to have a dedicated TWiki user for installation (if I have write access to the directories, I'm mightier than a simple TWiki admin anyway), but there isn't such a role.

Pragmatically I allowed write access to the TWiki web, ran the installer, and removed write access again.

There should be a correct solution as well?

I think setting the user to "TWikiAdminGroup" will solve this, but can't find the script in SVN to update it.

-- SP

Steffen, the script in question is twikiplugins/BuildContrib/lib/TWiki/Contrib/BuildContrib/TEMPLATE_installer.pl. This is used as the template for all installers.

CC

Thanks for hinting, CC - I put a new "AdminUserWikiName" value in TWiki.cfg and pointed and that instead. Set to TWikiAdminGroup by default.

Thanks for reporting this, Harald!

SVN 8581.

-- SP

While at it, made the installer script a bit more talkative and allowed it to really upload files to pub.

SVN 8585.

-- SP