[pmwiki-users] HTTP Authentication and use of login name

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 10:25:17PM +0200, Dominique Faure wrote:
> On 6/15/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> >On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 02:03:01PM -0400, Neil Herber wrote:
> >> On the other hand, where BA is used with obscure names like
> >> "user234", it would be nice to allow the user to enter a friendlier
> >> author name. I toyed with have a translation table and doing a lookup
> >> where user234 became "NeilHerber". Patrick even supplied me the code
> >> on this list many months ago.
> >
> >...and I've played with the idea that authuser.php could
> >automatically map userids to author-friendly names -- I'm still
> >working out the syntax for it.
> >
> 
> Why not use a kind of email recipient syntax as in the Site.AuthUser 
> excerpt:
> 
> alice(Alice Pleasance Liddell): (:encrypt wonderland:)
> dorothy(Dorothy Gale): (:encrypt toto:)

I'm thinking it would be:

    alice: (:encrypt wonderland:) "Alice Pleasance Liddell"
    dorothy: (:encrypt toto:) "Dorothy Gale"


One would also be able to do

    alice: "Alice Pleasance Liddell"

which establishes the userid->author name mapping but doesn't define
a password.

Pm