I think the idea is that the only people with access to his wiki are employees, and he trusts them not to impersonate eachother.

Sure thing. If you restrict yourself to Internet Explorer, one could use some kind of NTLM/MediaWiki authentication bridge to effective achieve transparent SSO. I'm just saying that I don't like the idea of letting people say "Oh yeah - I'm that guy" without providing any evidence (password). Even in a corporate environment. But that's just me - I'm paranoid. :) -- Jim On 3/9/07, Fernando Correia <fernandoacorreia(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > 2007/3/9, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>om>: > > > Identification implies authentication. Otherwise, how do you > distinguish > > > between the real PersonA and PersonA's malicious impersonator? > > > > I think the idea is that the only people with access to his wiki are > > employees, and he trusts them not to impersonate eachother. > > One procedure that works well in out environment is this: we use an > authentication plugin so that users that are already logged in to our > Intranet portal can click on a link that logs them in on the wiki. > They are added to the wiki user table on the fly if needed. They don't > have to identify themselves again (single sign-on). > > If they want to access a wiki page directly through a link, that also > works because we used the "remember me" option in the login form that > was called behind the scenes. > > In the worst case scenario, if the explicitly log out of the wiki and > then access a direct link to a page, they have to identify themselves, > but just once, because their login will be remembered. > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >

Hi, I am trying to set up differnent wikis with the mainly the same source code (because installation and update is easier): I set up two directories: wWikiA and wWikiB: wWikiA is the full installation wWikiB should only hold the LocalSettings.php and the files from the main dir, like index.php. To access the code in wWikiA/includes etc. from wWikiB, I changed some in LocalSettings.php: $IP = 'c:/Programme/xampp/htdocs/wWikiA'; $wgScriptPath = "/wWikiB"; $wgUploadPath = "/wWikiB/images"; #actually not necessary $wgStylePath = "/wWikiA/skins"; $wgDBprefix = "wb_"; Unfortunatly the wiki did not start. Some files need to be in the includes directory: Defines.php ProfileStub.php Setup.php WebStart.php Is this a feature or a bug? GunterS PS: I can live with that, only 4 files and the files from the main folder are easy to replace.