• Name: Harald Jörg
• Email: (defunct)
• Initials: haj
• Company Name: Unseen University
• Company URL: Amongst others: http://munich.pm.org
• Country: Germany
• City: Munich
• Hear From: Googled for Wiki software, Munich Perl Mongers discussion

Always looking for a LAN in the waves

What I'm currently trying to to with TWiki

At work (Fujitsu Siemens Computers) we are am planning to introduce a wiki for internal communication, and I have been just curious about the "best" wiki software. And then I fell in love with the extensions. And, by the way: TWiki has been easier to install than I had expected from previous reports.

For the proof of concept in the office I'm using a pure cygwin installation (in contrast to TWikiOnCygwin, which is using the native win32 Apache server). As a special which is currently not in vanilla cygwin Apache I managed to compile in mod_perl, mod_ssl and - here it may become interesting to TWiki folks elsewhere - mod_auth_kerb. The latter module allows TransparentAuthentication against either a Kerberos KDC or against a Windows Domain Controller.

Windows clients logging in into a Windows domain seem to be something one encounters quite frequently these days.

My TWiki hacking is done using a Linux system during quiet hours at home (while my son is asleep).

My Background

I have been developing user management software for some years. This included a contribution to bring an operating system through a formal security certification, for which I have done the authentication code. In between I have been a technical editor / CGI maintainer / odd-jobs man for some websites, and since 1999 I am a member of the Munich Perl Mongers. Not too bad a background for looking into TWiki's user and password management, isn't it?

For web and other template-driven stuff I am an TemplateToolkit addict, which I have been using since its Text::MetaText predecessor. Hey, I'm even mentioned in the Credits list!

My attitude towards open source is documented in Register.pm:

        # If you want it, write it.

(No, I did not write that comment!) Meanwhile I have wanted and written patches to CGI.pm, libwww-perl, the TemplateToolkit, Heimdal, the docbook-xsl stylesheets, ... , and recently TWiki.

Current Threads

• Plugins.TWiki? - News about the Dakar release
• Bugs:WebChanges
• AllowFileNameChangeForAttachment - considered for Dakar - great!
• TWikiRegistrationHowToCheckUsername (to be related to HowToAvoidRegistration, see below)
• CairoDakarRegistrationDifference and RemoveWriteProtectionOfUserHomePages (which in my view are closely related to each other)
• Own contributions regarding the registration/authentication process:
  • HowToAvoidRegistration
  • TransparentAuthenticationRevisited
  • RegistrationOnDemandHack