[pmwiki-users] Automatic author name

[Stirling Westrup]

JASON JARVIS wrote:
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> I am trying to get the author name to autopopulate when my users edit.
> 
> I don't want to have a full blown authentication system but would rather
> have the users enter their name once and this then is saved in a cookie and
> subsequently used to populate the author field.
> 
> I have set this up, saving the name entered into a cookie called $AuthId
> and alos tried $Author but this is not picked up in the edit page.
> 
> Can anyone offer any advice? Thanks.

What kind of user authentication scheme are you using?

I may be able to help get the $Author field working as I spent the weekend
banging my head on a very similar problem (which I eventually solved).