In 4.1.2 I could authenticate through the REST script by passing the username and password parameters. When I try to do this in MAIN I get a 500 Internal Server Error. I tracked down two problems, but each revealed another and I started to get in over my head.

The first error: Can't call method "checkPassword" on an undefined value at /var/www/html/twiki/MAIN/bin/rest line 82. I fixed it by adding the following lines to Users.pm:

    require TWiki::Users::Password;
    $this->{passwords} = new TWiki::Users::Password( $this );

The second error is Can't locate object method "findUser" via package "TWiki::Users" at /var/www/html/twiki/MAIN/bin/rest line 87. This was easilly fixed by changing the function call to findUserByWikiName

The third problem is not a server error, but TWiki does not know what user I am logged in as. When my plugin outputs getWikiUserName() I get the following: Main.UnknownUser (ARRAY(0xa432274)). !UnknownUser is getting set by getWikiName in Users.pm, but I don't know why $cUID is an array. Could one of the functions be passing too many parameters?

-- TWiki:Main/JasonHill - 20 Jul 2007

Ping Sven - any update on this?

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I recon i've fixed this now

-- SvenDowideit - 04 Sep 2007