[Moin-user] Re: Automatic login on secure wiki

Malte Helmert helmert at informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Sun Jan 23 14:06:02 EST 2005


Alexander Schremmer wrote:

> MoinMoin can read the user name from the CGI environment when it was set by
> the webserver because the user name got authenticated via HTTP auth or any
> compatible module (like mod_ldap etc.).
> 
> Please read HelpOnConfiguration in order to know how to enable this
> feature. You might want to apply this patch in order to create the user
> accounts in MoinMoin automatically - otherwise you would need to create
> them separately:
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6247606&forum_id=623

That's much better than I dared hope! Creating the user accounts 
manually is not a problem, there aren't that many anyway. I will use a 
short wrapper script to change the environment variable from "Firstname 
Lastname" to "FirstnameLastname" then. Thanks!

Malte






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