[Mediawiki-l] Howto use the intranet login-name as user-id

[Hanfred Eschner]

sorry, if this is somewhere in the manual and I'm too blind to find, if
this is not the right place to ask (where else?) or my english is too
bad...

I'm a fan of mediawiki software and would like to install it in our
corporate's intranet for all the "knowhows". To keep the inhibition
threshold for editing as low as possible, I would prefer the "anything
goes"-version for user rights with no registration necessary. On the
other hand it might be desirable to identify an author for further
questions about his knowledge.

At present for a non-logged-in-user the local IP-number of the intranet
is shown to "identify" the author, but this dosn't really help, because
it's choosen accidentally from the DHCP-Server. Is there any way to
automatically adopt the login-name of the user for the corporate's
network as identifikation for the wiki-user?

(Learned Algol, Fortran and VBA, maybe successful doing something in PHP
;-)

Any help will be grateful appreciated!
Hanfred