If you wish to establish a role for a user of the TiddlyWeb system, you need to create or update a User in the datastore.

You may do this from the command line using the twanager adduser command. If you wish to make the changes using Python code, see How do I create or update a User object in code?.

There are two ways to update an existing user from the command line:

• One is just like creating the user anew, but including role information. When you add a role in this way to an existing user (from the command line), you will be resetting their password.
  
• The other is to use the addrole twanager command.
  
  

To add a role to the user barney with password dinosaur and the roles ADMIN and science do the following:


Or


If you are using OpenID or a similar service that uses it's own password or authentication mechanism but would like for the user to have roles in the datastore you may create an entry for the user with an empty password:


See also:

• How do I add a user?
  
• How do I create or update a User object in code?
  
• May I edit the datastore by hand?