Question

I am using Apache NIS authentication. The authentication appears to work fine. I login using my NIS username and password. When I go to twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome my NIS username appears in the upper left panel. My username does not appear under the list of twiki users, so I decided to register. In the registration form, the LoginName is filled with NIS username. When I fill in the rest of the registration form and submit it returns the error: Incorrect LoginName '' is not a valid LoginName The field must match the {LoginNameFilterIn} filter for this site

Somehow, it lost my login name? The login name has no special characters in it. My LoginName is caravagg. What's wrong with my setup?

Thanks

Environment

-- GinoCaravaggio - 16 Mar 2007

Answer

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Upon further investigation. When I hit submit, I first get: The page cannot be displayed error. When I hit refresh, I get the invalid login name above error.

-- GinoCaravaggio - 16 Mar 2007

I think you need to have a WikiName, the TWikiUsers page will then have something like

GinoCarravaggio - gcarav (unix name) - <some date>

Then it should work. You can play by editing data/Main/TWikiUsers.txt directly

The TWiki Manual already mentions this, but not explicitly

http://mytwiki/twiki/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiUserAuthentication#TWiki_Username_vs_Login_Username

You may also need to set

{Register}{AllowLoginName}

to be on in twiki/bin/configure

-- RodMcKenzie - 18 Mar 2007