Jan-Paul Köster wrote:
We are now looking for a way to allow these core users
to log into the
other wikis with their login information from the main wiki so they
don't have to juggle with multiple logins. Is there an easy way or an
existing solution to get the different wikis to check the "main wiki"
user table in addition to their own or do you have any other ideas how
this functionality can be accomplished.
Setup your web-server to do the authentication via a single user
database (file, PAM, LDAP, ...) and use the web-server to enforce which
top-level URLs (i.e. which wikis) each user has access to (via user's
membership of certain groups).
Then, use this to transfer web-server auth to mediawiki:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Otheus/Auto_Login_via_REMOTE_USER