On 12 January 2012 02:47, Daniel Barrett <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 11 January 2012 21:51, Daniel Barrett <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> * Remove any trailing "@companyname.com" from the username. Users in
> our company are accustomed to logging in this way on
> >>their Windows boxes, and we'd get several support calls per week from
> people who "can't log into the wiki" because they
> >>were adding @companyname.com onto their wiki usernames.
>
> >The way we do it on our Mantis bugtracker is to use the LDAP server
> >for all logins. Something like that for MediaWiki would do the job
> >too. One password!
>
> Yes, we use the LDAPAuthentication extension for MediaWiki. But usernames
> on the login page still must be "foo" rather than "[email protected]".
> Hence the JavaScript to remove @.*.
>
> DanB
>
>
Of course, if the login form code wasn't such a swamp, there'd be a hook
you could use to preprocess the usernames server-side...  :-(

--HM
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