SID-02138: Wikiusername not displayed after authentication

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	6.0.1	Perl version:
Category:	CategoryAuthentication	Server OS:	SLES11.2	Last update:	10 years ago

Installed TWiki 6.0.1 but unable to see the wikiusername after log in. What is seen instead is the employee ID which is entered in the authentication page for log-in. In older version of TWiki (5.0.1) we could see the wikiusername after log-in.

-- himangshu dutta - 2015-12-24

Discussion and Answer

I guess that you are using ApacheLogin as login manager? In that case, you need to activate {Register}{AllowLoginName} in your TWiki configuration.

-- Harald Jörg - 2015-12-24

Hi Harald Jorg,

I am sorry for the delayed response. Thanks for your suggestion. I edited the LocalSite.cfg file and added the line $TWiki::cfg{Register}{AllowLoginName} = 1; after the below mentioned line $TWiki::cfg{Register}{EnableNewUserRegistration} = 1; Then restarted apache and it didn't work. I still get my ID and not my Username. Please suggest.

Regards Himangshu

-- himangshu dutta - 2016-01-18

Well, this is a bit of guesswork, but let my try anyway.

Have you imported your TWikiUsers topic and the data/.htpasswd file from your 5.0.1 installation or do you want your users to register anew for 6.0.1? I guess you tried with a new registration for 6.0.1. In that case, there's something you can do.

The setting $TWiki::cfg{Register}{EnableNewUserRegistration} = 1; works during the registration process: When a user registers, then (s)he needs to provide a wiki username and a login name. Changing the setting only "works" for new registrations!

But you can fix it by hand: Have a look at your Main.TWikiUsers topic. For every registered user, it should have an entry looking like this:

• WikiName - employeeid - 2016-01-18

I guess yours is looking like that:

• WikiName - WikiName - 2016-01-18

-- Harald Jörg - 2016-01-18

Yes You are right. I have installed the new version for a different server and have new registrations. I found that the old site had TWikiUsers topic entries like WikiName - employeeid - 2016-01-18 and the new site has entries like WikiName - WikiName - 2016-01-18 (like you said). Can I change anything now for the desired behavior ?

-- himangshu dutta - 2016-01-19

With AllowLoginNames in place, new registrations should give the desired behaviour. For peolpe who already have registered with your new server, there are two ways:

• If you know the employee ids - for example from your previous installation -, then you can manually edit TWikiUsers (as a TWiki administrator) and replace the second WikiName in every line by the corresponding employeeid.
• Or you can delete the users' topics and remove the bad lines from TWikiUsers and ask them to register again (safe but tedious).

-- Harald Jörg - 2016-01-19

I edited the LocalSite.cfg file and added the line $TWiki::cfg{Register}{AllowLoginName} = 1 and then I edited the TWikiUsers file and replaced the second WikiName by the corresponding employee ID. It works fine now. Thank you very much for your help Harald.

-- himangshu dutta - 2016-03-15

-- himangshu dutta - 2016-03-15

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