Question

I'm a twiki newbie who's generally good at apache, other wikis, linux, windows, etc.

I have kerberos working in apache, and need to translate username@ACME.LOCAL to WikiName. I am following Plugins.LoginNameAliasesPlugin instructions

Here's my problem - The documentation says "Behavior of this plugin is controlled through the following settings in the TWiki.LoginNameAliasesPlugin topic." And I can't find that topic. I tried browsing to my TWiki Web, but don't see any plugin topics there. Tried going to Admin Tools, where I find plugins, but no LoginNameAliasesPlugin.

I went into configure, found the plugin, clicked the checkmark, and went into Admin Tools again. Now inside of AdminTools, I see the plugin, but it says "disabled."

The documentation also says "To activate the plugin: the variable $useLoginNameAliasesPlugin in TWiki.cfg" but I can't find any TWiki.cfg file anywhere on my system ...

Environment

-- EdwardHarvey - 22 Dec 2008

Answer

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-- EdwardHarvey - 22 Dec 2008

This plugin is listed to be tested with TWiki 4.1. I am not sure it will work on TWiki 4.2 since there have been a lot of changes in user login and password management.

If you install the plugin you should see LoginNameAliasesPlugin topic in your TWiki web, which corresponds to file twiki/data/TWiki/LoginNameAliasesPlugin.txt. If you enable the plugin in configure (which gets recorded in twiki/lib/LocalSite.cfg) you will see the plugin listed in your TWiki.InstalledPlugins topic. But even if enabled, the plugin might not be listed as enabled if there is a problem with the plugin. See TWikiPlugins documentation.

You might not need this plugin if you set the {Register}{AllowLoginName} flag in configure, and if you filter out the @domain part from your login name and pass just the user name along to the REMOTE_USER environment variable; TWiki will pick it up.

And TWiki will translate the login name to WikiName if instructed in your Main.TWikiUsers page. Sample bullet for user John Smith:

• JohnSmith - jsmith - 23 Dec 2008

See also: TransparentAuthentication, SingleSignOn, HowToEnableSingleSignOn

-- PeterThoeny - 23 Dec 2008

Hey Peter,

thanks for the informative post, I am interested to try your simplified workaround here, but don't know where to set up the filter to strip out the domain name. Clues?

Thanks, Jacob

-- JacobGreenleaf - 2009-12-29