Chris Earle (CBL) wrote:

This extension http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Auto_Login_via_REMOTE_USER requires web server authentication right?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this means that the contents of the User Table would have to be in the passwd file defined through the .htaccess file right?

.. because it passes whatever the user authenticates on the webserver with through to the wiki/extensions scripts right?

(resulting in this not really being useful because i've got to duplicate my user table ....)

The idea is that Apache is setup to authenticate users using PAM/LDAP/..., so it's already using whatever user/password database you already have.

Then, with this addon, you get all the accounts loaded into MediaWiki automatically (well, when people first access the wiki), without having to maintain a separatate user/password database in MediaWiki itself.