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I've lost a previous installation of TWiki from 2004 which was running pretty flawlessly. User registration was turned off, and I had somehow hacked the software to recognize a Windows username and place it where the owner's name would usually appear. So, instead of this...

Topic revision: r24 - 08 Jul 2005 - 18:12:48 - TWikiContributor?

I could get it to say...

Topic revision: r24 - 08 Jul 2005 - 18:12:48 - Bob_Gipperson

That was about all the document ownership I needed at the time, and in our small work environment, we weren't worried about security. Plus, it made it easy for people to contribute and that was key to getting it adopted within the organization.

So now that I have 4.2 installed (I used the Windows installer version), I'm wondering how I can do roughly the same thing? I've searched for a couple hours and found nothing that would allow me to drop the environment variable %username% into the code somewhere. Any suggestions?

-Ted

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-- TedMorris - 08 Apr 2008

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This is probably overkill, but there's a plugin that incidentally "provides access to environment variables": TWiki:Plugins.FakeBasicAuthRegPlugin

You won't want its certificate functionality, but maybe you can borrow its environment variable trick?

-- SeanCMorgan - 09 Apr 2008

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-- PeterThoeny - 03 Jun 2008