[pmwiki-users] HTTP Authentication and use of login name

[Neil Herber]

At 2006-06-10  10:44 AM +0200, christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com is 
rumored to have said:
>Since I'm using Apache BA, I guess it doesn't make that much sense 
>to require an author name any more.

That was my initial thought, and on the wikis I control, I also 
control the BA login names, which I make into wikiwords as in 
"NeilHerber". This login name is then forced as the author name. 
Nobody has asked for any changes to this.

The big benefit is that the users just log in once, and they can get 
their browsers to save the login. They never have to type in an author name.

On the other hand, where BA is used with obscure names like 
"user234", it would be nice to allow the user to enter a friendlier 
author name. I toyed with have a translation table and doing a lookup 
where user234 became "NeilHerber". Patrick even supplied me the code 
on this list many months ago.


Neil Herber
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