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Administrator Group

  • Member list (comma-separated list):
    • Set GROUP =
  • Persons/group who can change the list:

How to login as AdminUser

  • Login as the internal Wiki administrator:
  • Logout from Administrator:

ALERT! NOTE: If you lock yourself out of AdminUser during setup activities or have forgotten the configure password, you can unset the configure password by editing the lib/LocalSite.cfg file and deleting the line that starts with Foswiki::cfg{Password} and then set it again by saving your settings in configure.

How to add the first administrator
If you haven't previously set up an administrator, follow these steps:
  1. Authenticate as the internal administrator:
  2. Edit this topic
  3. Insert the wikinames of admin users in the Administrator Group by listing them in the GROUP setting
    (example * Set GROUP = JohnSmith, JamesBond)
  4. Save this topic
  5. Logout from the Internal AdminUser
  6. Verify that new members show up properly in the group listing at Main.Groups?
  7. Make sure always to keep this topic write protected by keeping the already defined ALLOWTOPICCHANGE setting
  8. The ALLOWTOPICHANGE and ALLOWTOPICRENAME settings in System.DefaultPreferences and Main.SitePreferences have already been set to this group (AdminGroup), restricting edit of site-wide preferences to the Wiki Administrator Group

Related topics: WikiUsers, AdminUser, WikiGroups, AccessControl
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