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

[Alistair Johnson]

Hi Hanfred,

I suggest you search the list for info from me on integrating authentication
via NTLM credentials.  Others have posted on how they are authenticating via
an existing web server logon.  Also look at AuthPlugin.php which will allow
you to automatically create logons for people based on an external
authentication database.

Al.

-----Original Message-----
From: Hanfred Eschner [mailto:hanfred.eschner at gmx.de] 
Sent: Friday, 20 May 2005 12:02 p.m.
To: mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Howto use the intranet login-name as user-id

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