Do you mean pulling account information from an external source to use for the users? If so, my latest LDAP Authentication patch added that support to AuthPlugin, and added hooks into the core code (it also added hooks for modifying the Login Template, adding users, updating the external source, etc).
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Ryan Lane Naval Oceanographic Office
-----Original Message----- From: wikitech-l-bounces@wikimedia.org [SMTP:wikitech-l-bounces@wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Marcus Kazmierczak Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 12:29 AM To: Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] External Authentication - Hacking IP Address
Tom, that sounds like exactly what I am looking for. I'm very interested in the patch if you could make it available.
Depending on how the user/lookup table works, I could tie that to an environment variable set by Apache which stores the username.
A modification also to the AuthPlugin.php page can use that username to query a database which stores real name, e-mail address, etc...
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