[Mediawiki-l] Require real name?

[KAndreou at rccl.com]

Thanks, that was it

I added this snippet:
if( $this->mRealName == '' )  {
       $this->mainLoginForm( wfMsg( 'wrongrealname' ) );
       return false;
    }

I also created the message "wrongrealname" to provide the right error 
message



mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org wrote on 10-07-2007 11:07:37:

> I would look at SpecialUserLogin.php in the includes directory.
> 
> I am on 1.10.0 so take these line number references as needed ..
> 
> In SpecialUserLogin.php around line 201 is a function
> addNewAccountInternal().  After the global statements the first bit
> looks to be sure that the 'domain' in the email is good.  If not it
> kicks it out.
> 
> So as a test I added this
> 
> ##DSIG
>    if( $this->mDomain == '' )  {
>       $this->mainLoginForm( wfMsg( 'wrongpassword' ) );
>       return false;
>    }
> 
> Which is basically the same code except that I am looking at the domain
> and seeing if it is empty.  This forces the process to kick out a null
> email (no domain no valid email).
> 
> You could do the same thing with name and other fields as required.
> 
> Note: If you make these changes you will also need to remove the text at
> the bottom of the create form that says these fields are not required.
> 
> This could be made as an extension so that a switch in the localsettings
> would enable/disable this feature.
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> DSig
> David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation
> PICK Guy
> 206-770-5585
> davesigafoos at sanmar.com 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> KAndreou at rccl.com
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> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Require real name?
> 
> Thanks Rob, that's what I figured and I agree that in the core we
> wouldn't 
> want it set by default but, wouldn't you agree it would be nice to have
> it 
> as a flag?
> 
> In any case, were would I make the change to make it a requirement?
> 
> 
> mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org wrote on 10-07-2007 04:00:06:
> 
> > On 09/07/07, jidanni at jidanni.org <jidanni at jidanni.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > K> How can I make the "Real Name"
> > >
> > > All I know is I do
> > > $wgEnableEmail=$wgEnableUserEmail=$wgAllowRealName=false;
> > > to protect users _against_ leaving their real names and addresses in
> > > my politically sensitive http://radioscanningtw.jidanni.org/ ,
> > > assuming that it might be tapped/eavesdropped/confiscated by the
> > > authorities one day.
> > 
> > Great, waste his time by posting the complete anti-solution to his 
> question?
> > 
> > With respect *to the question*, it's not possible out of the box,
> > although you could fairly easily hack the code so that form submission
> > required entry of a real name. This isn't necessarily something we'd
> > want in core, however.
> > 
> > 
> > Rob Church
> > 
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