General ⇒ Enabling \citeauthor in BibTeX Styles alpha/alphadin

[UniOl]

I need some help with natbibs \citeauthor command. Currently it's not possible to use \citeauthor with the alpha style.

I thought of editing the output.bibitem macro in the alpha.bst file, in a way that it's not generating

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\bibitem[BD00]{BroDugSocialLife}
\textsc{Brown}, John~S. ; \textsc{Duguid}, Paul:
\newblock \emph{The Social Life of Information}.
\newblock Harvard Business School Press, 2000. --
\newblock ISBN 0875847625

in the resulting bbl-file anymore. It should insert \citename{Brown und Duguid, } in the first optional paramter of \bibitem.

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\bibitem[\citename{Brown und Duguid, }BD00]{BroDugSocialLife}
\textsc{Brown}, John~S. ; \textsc{Duguid}, Paul:
\newblock \emph{The Social Life of Information}.
\newblock Harvard Business School Press, 2000. --
\newblock ISBN 0875847625

In this case it is possible to use the \citeauthor macro and you'll get Brown und Duguid in your text. But the problem is the resulting bibliography isn't correct anymore. All bibitems are indexed by a number and not by a short key like [BD00].

Any ideas how to solve this problem? I even thougt of modifying \citex command in the natbib.sty, which is called via \citetp by \citeauthor. But \citex is a little bit unreadable.