I don't know of an extension that does OAuth logins as a client, that would be compatible with Linkedin. I think there is an extension for Google login, which should be based on OAuth2/OIDC, which would probably work.
Extension:OAuth is for running an OAuth 1.0a server, which would allow other sites to use your wiki as the login provider. I've got an extension to do the client side, using mediawiki's identification extension, which I've been working on purely as a volunteer. I'll get that in an official repo sometime soon, since adapting it to Linkedin would be fairly easy (if you're ok solely relying on ssl for certain security aspects).
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Jeremy Baron jeremy@tuxmachine.com wrote:
On Aug 17, 2014 10:42 AM, "Ad Strack van Schijndel" ad.strackvanschijndel@gmail.com wrote:
Would it be possible to arrange registration/login with LinkedIn? Some websites offer that possibility. Does anyone have experience with that?
https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/authentication says they support 2.0 and 1.0a.
https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OAuth says we support 1.0a. But I think we don't support your use case? i.e. we support registering client libs to use the API but not delegating login authentication top a 3rd party.
Nor sure if there are plans for that. But you're certainly welcome to write it yourself. :)
https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Auth_systems/OAuth/Design
CC Chris who surely knows more about the status than I do.
-Jeremy, who personally would avoid using a site if that was their only auth option (but maybe you don't want to be exclusive, can't tell)