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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
