ug, a snag. Posix Username vs WikiName

[Alan McKay]

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?

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[Les Mikesell]

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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[Alan McKay]

>  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. 
We use Twiki and Trac (which includes a wiki among other things)

Good to know!   I'll have to look into Trac authentication to see if
it can do the same.


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         - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"

[Ivanov Andrey (M.)]

Your wiki may be able to map other LDAP attributes to wikiname (for
example, you may have uid=amckay and cn=AlanMcKay)...

2009/12/7 Alan McKay <alan.mckay(a)gmail.com&gt;:
> > 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.
>
>  We use Twiki and Trac (which includes a wiki among other things)
>
>  Good to know!   I'll have to look into Trac authentication to see if
>  it can do the same.
>
>
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>          - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"
>
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[Alan McKay]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Andrey Ivanov
<andrey.ivanov(a)polytechnique.fr&gt; wrote:
>  Your wiki may be able to map other LDAP attributes to wikiname (for
>  example, you may have uid=amckay and cn=AlanMcKay)... 
Well, a preliminary google brings up a fair bit about Trac and LDAP,
so I'm not too worried about it.  Even if I get everything else
converted and that ends up being the only system that still has its
own password, it will be a pretty huge improvement over what we have
now.

Now I'm off to check on Kerio mail server ... (don't ask - wasn't my
choice, I just inherited the thing)


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“Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV”
         - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"