"Platonides" wrote in message news:gl8b4e$t4$1@ger.gmane.org...
Jim wrote:
I'm trying to setup external authentication
with MediaWiki. I've gone
over
http://wiki.case.edu/CaseWiki:External_Authentication time and time again
but it's not exactly clear. Do I need to do only pieces of it?
Everything?
I'm just not following. SO, I'm hoping someone can spell it out for me.
Let's say I have a PHP script (lets call it
ourmethod.php) that puts up a
web page and authenticates a user using our method. Exactly how do I get
MediaWiki to display ourmethod.php for the login
You still use MediaWiki login to
get the user and password.
On
http://wiki.case.edu/CaseWiki:External_Authentication they use
mod_reqrite to send you to another page. You may be able to make
Special:UserLogin more like ourmethod.php with some hook.
and what exactly do I need
to do to ourmethod.php to have it tell MediaWiki "this guys ok"?
return true from the authenticate() method.
That's just it, I can't use the MediaWiki login to get the userid/pw. I
need to be able to redirect to a page that uses it's own method of input for
that data. Reading
http://wiki.case.edu/CaseWiki:External_Authentication
makes it sound possible, but it reads as though they're covering multiple
methods and do a poor job of distinguishing which to-do's are for which
method.