> >> I'm guessing that is the case, but as > >> it will be a publicly accessible system, it is quite possible there will > >> be people with the same name - any suggestions on how to handle this in > >> a nice way? > > > > Use their middle initials or some other way to make the name unique. > > My original plan was to have the users do all registration through one > form (in other words, avoid repetition)
Well, then I suggest you make sure stuff is unique at registration time. > I wasn't keen on that option, but I am keen to centralise other settings > too, such as user timezone. Moin isn't the only app that needs that > setting. I want to be sure that: I you use a custom auth method for moin, you can keep stuff in sync with your centralised system. E.g. ldap_login does that, but you can update user profiles in the same way in a custom auth method for your centralised system. > b) if I can achieve (a), then I do not want the user changing such > settings in Moin, as their changes would be lost on the next login You can configure moin so some settings are disabled (not changeable). > Could ACLs and everything else in Moin use the email address in place of > the name value? Maybe, I never tried that. I guess it would be ugly and also a problem if an email address changes, then you'ld have to change acls and group pages also. > > GivenAuth - use some given user name (e.g. apache REMOTE_USER). Can > > optionally strip windows or email domain, remove blanks, titlecase. > > There are a lot of apache modules you can use this with, but the only > > thing moin will get from this is a authenticated user name. > > Rather than just stripping the email domain, can it search the user data > files to match on email address? I don't think so, but a good and well-tested patch to search in name and in email fields would be a considerable contribution. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Moin-user mailing list Moin-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/moin-user
