The web server configuration parameter username, in conjunction with its companion password:

• Enables Basic Authentication with the specified username/password combination being added to any credentials specified with the credentials parameter
• The specified username is used as a default value for the readers and writers authorisation parameters if they are not specified

Examples

Serve anonymous users, setting the username to "joe":

tiddlywik mywikifolder --listen anon-username=joe

Restrict access to the user "joe" with a password of "secret":

tiddlywik mywikifolder --listen username=joe password=secret