Question

Hi, i will need your help regarding setting up TWIKI User Authentication. I actually want to do login using intranet. So that once somebody enter there own intranet user and password, it directly let the user enter the site. I have set up twiki on Windows XP using Cygwin. So which kind of authentication i should use to link my intranet ids with twiki. I checked the site but there is no clear explaination about this. It only tells that REMOTE_USER variable will do that but i dont know the internal mappings. I know we need to configure httpd.conf or .htaccess file for it but i am not sure. Please help me with it.

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-- JagmohanSingh - 13 Jun 2007

Answer

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TWiki can map from login name jsmith to WikiName JohnSmith. Run configure and enable {MapUserToWikiName}. For external auth you need to connect to an LDAP server. See LdapContrib. See also TWikiUserAuthentication, Tag:authentication.

-- PeterThoeny - 15 Jun 2007

Hi i am actually using an older version as the instructions for new version like 4.1.2 for windows is still not available on the net. Like i couldn't set variable $rcsdir in the latest version's Twiki.spec file. Also my network does not support LDAP so i will need to connect Twiki with database table which will have the information required. Please guide me on the same like wat columns i should have in that table and also how to do authentication using table in database and twiki's wikiname

-- JagmohanSingh - 15 Jun 2007

Sorry, closing this after more than 30 days of inactivity...

-- PeterThoeny - 10 Aug 2007