TWiki Username vs. Login Username

This section applies only if your Foswiki is installed on a server that is both authenticated and on an intranet.

Foswiki internally manages two usernames: Login username and TWiki username.

• Login username: When you login to the intranet, you use your existing login username, for example pthoeny. This name is normally passed to Foswiki by the REMOTE_USER environment variable. Foswiki uses this name internally to log topic changes. Login usernames are maintained by your system administrator.
• TWiki username: This is your name in WikiNotation, for example PeterThoeny, recorded when you register in TWikiRegistration; doing so also generates your personal home page in the User web of your TWiki site.

Foswiki can map the intranet username to the Wiki username automatically, provided that the Login username and Wiki username pair has been entered in the WikiUsers topic. This happens automatically when you register.

NOTE: To correctly enter a WikiName - your own or someone else's - be sure to specify the User web in front of the Wiki username: write User.WikiUsername or %MAINWEB%.WikiUsername. This assures that the name will be linked automatically to the User web, where user home pages are stored, even if the text is entered in a different web.

-- PeterThoeny - 30 Jan 2003