On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:05:01PM -0500, David Wendt wrote: # Rowan Collins wrote: # # >On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 22:09:32 -0600, =James Birkholz= # >j.birchwood@verizon.net wrote: # > # > # >>1) I'll want to merge the registration for the wiki portion with the # >>non-wiki existing site. # >> # >> # > # >You're not the first to consider this, but I can't remember off-hand # >anyone reporting that (and how) they achieved it successfully. You # >could try searching the archives (Google site:mail.wikimedia.org +your # >query), but I guess the easiest approach is to hack up # >includes/SpecialUserlogin.php to access the extra bits of database and # >whatever that the other parts of the site use. I think there may be an # >authentication plugin system "on the way" which could be useful in # >this regard, but don't quote me on that. # > # > # > # Unified login will be extremly hard, as it requires changes to lots of # functions. # # In the future we should have a way for scripts to 'talk' to each other # and syncronize login information. I'm working on something for my own # seperate project, which wont be done for a while.
Isn't authentication to a directory server (via LDAP) on its way? Couldn't that solve this problem?
-Sam