Alan McKay wrote:
> Ug, I could have sworn I looked at this and it was OK, but now I see
> it is not :-( I could have sworn I tested this but I must have
> goofed something in my test. Maybe forgot to remove the local
> /etc/passwd entry or something.
>
> Username - I'd like to have a Posix username like "amckay", but a wiki
> username like AlanMcKay
>
> I guess it all goes by the "User ID" field from the main page.
>
> My problem is that I have existing wikis so need usernames like
> WIkiNames. I tested this and it works fine with the apache ldap auth
> module.
>
> But I'd also like to keep the existing Posix usernames. Though I
> guess in a pinch I could easily switch existing Posix usernames over
> to a wikiname. But I'm certain I'll have a lot of complaints about
> it.
>
> Is there anything I can do here?
Which wiki? Twiki can map your normal login name to a WikiName
internally so apache only has to authenticate the login name and set
REMOTE_USER.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
