Thanks a lot Brandon, I managed to log in as super admin after editing the xwiki.cfg file.

From: Esbach, Brandon [mailto:Esbachb@tycoelectronics.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 6:00 PM
To: xwiki-users@objectweb.org
Subject: RE: [xwiki-users] access rights problem

Depending on what page (looks like webhome/main); there is an easy solution.

How the xwiki permissions work is by exclusion (hope that term is correct). IE, you've told it that XWiki.XWikiGuest is allowed to view the page - xwiki assumes you thus mean that all others are to be denied. This is not unusual, if you've ever worked with network apps it becomes easier to use (MUCH easier than specifically grant/deny).

To fix this, all you need to do is remove the permission (click on "XWiki Access Rights" link to get back there); you do this by clicking the "remove this right entry" once you've selected the entry. You most likely need to be logged in as admin to do this. If admin is also causing a problem, you'll need to use the superadmin configuration (details on the xwiki.com if I recall correctly)

A tip:

When I setup permissions, I always use groups. That way it's easier to relate functions to groups. In your case, I assume your aim was to allow guests to view the page - and you had the right process in mind. Simply add XWiki.XWikiAllGroup to the Groups entry, or any other group you need to view the page, and add the guest user afterwards.

Hmm, hope that makes sense..

From: Roger Rukundo Nzabandora [mailto:rnrukundo@syscorp.co.ug]
Sent: 07 June 2006 15:12
To: xwiki-dev@objectweb.org; xwiki-users@objectweb.org
Subject: [xwiki-users] access rights problem

I was trying to learn how the access rights work on my xwiki site and I seem to have completely messed up something. While logged in as “admin”,under “more actions” I went to the “Xwiki access Rights page” and while there I set the “user” Xwiki.XwikiGuest access levels to “view”. After I saved. Immediately after this I seemed to have locked everyuser from all other rights including the admin. My site is showing looks like this (below); Everything is gone! Please advise how I can undo the changes. Thanks