Question

How do I keep people that are already registered with a TWikiName from reregistering again? In other words, when someone is authenticated and have already registered JoeSmith, how do I keep them from registering against as JoeRSmith?

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-- DigantKasundra - 28 Sep 2005

Answer

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The only way I could see doing this is by doing away with .htaccess and replacing it with external authentication via, for example, Apache. This would of course require and external authority (eg., LDAP, AD, Kerberos, etc). The external authority provides the loginid and you would have to provide a corecode patch that would first check the TwikiUsers topic to see if that id was already entered.

If you do not have an external authority then I am out of ideas. Perhaps someone else?

-- SteveRJones - 29 Sep 2005