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

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 02:03:01PM -0400, Neil Herber wrote:
> 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.

...and I've played with the idea that authuser.php could
automatically map userids to author-friendly names -- I'm still
working out the syntax for it.

Pm