I’m trying to develop a site for an organization that uses shib login. Is there a way to set up Buddypress so that users can log in via shib and then have a profile automatically created with the buddypress username and their original username being the same?

I know that something similar already works with the wp-fb-connect plugin, since after you enter your Facebook details your profile features your name as your username and your profile pic as your avatar.

[@djpaul Keymaster 14 years ago]

Don’t worry about BuddyPress for this, just look for WordPress plugins that enable shib login.

[@lpnotes Member 14 years ago]

Thanks Paul. I did find https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shibboleth/, but installing it broke my .htaccess file for some reason (I couldn’t log back in to the site). I had installed 1.2.7, 3.0.4.

[@lpnotes Member 14 years ago]

Specifically, I get this message sitewide:

401 Authorization Required

Invalid login credentials!