Re: [Mediawiki-l] Automatic Login using get_current_user()

The password cannot be blank. So, we define a universal password for all accounts. The code below will automatically login for accounts that I manually create. It is not yet automatically creating accounts.

J Wolfgang Goerlich

function Auth_remote_user_hook() {

global $wgUser; global $wgRequest; global $_REQUEST;

// Universal Password for all users $pass = "1Some2Secret3Password4"; // 1Some2Secret3Password4

// HTTP refer to login page $httprefer = "Location: http" . (isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] == "on" ? "s" : "") . "://" . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . ":" . $_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] . ( isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) ? $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] : "/" . ( isset($_SERVER['URL']) ? $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] . ( $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] ? "?" . $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] : "" ) : "" ) );

// For a few special pages, don't do anything. $title = $wgRequest->getVal('title') ; if ($title == 'Special:Userlogout' || $title == 'Special:Userlogin') { return; }

// Do nothing if session is valid $wgUser = User::loadFromSession(); if ($wgUser->isLoggedIn()) { return; }

// Do little if user already exists // (set the _REQUEST variable so that Login knows we're authenticated) $username = get_current_user(); $u = User::newFromName( $username ); if (is_null($u)) { # Invalid username or some other error -- force login, just return return; }

$wgUser = $u; if ($u->getId() != 0) {

// Populate the userlogin form's username and password (Userlogin.php)

$_REQUEST['wpName'] = $username; $_REQUEST['wpPassword'] = $pass; header($httprefer);

// Make call to load session name, otherwise can't save

if( !isset($wgCommandLineMode) && !isset( $_COOKIE[session_name()] ) ) { User::SetupSession(); }

// Set the cookies, save the settings, and return

$wgUser->setCookies(); $wgUser->saveSettings(); return; }

// Ok, now we need to create a user.

$wgUser->setPassword=$pass;

include 'includes/SpecialUserlogin.php'; $form = new LoginForm( $wgRequest ); $form->initUser( $wgUser );

$form->mName = $username; $form->mPassword = $pass; $form->mRetype = $pass; $form->mCreateaccount = true; $form->mRemember = true; $form->mRealName = $username;

header($httprefer);

$wgUser->setCookies(); $wgUser->saveSettings();

return;

}