On Jan 17, 2005, at 4:46 AM, Joannes Vermorel wrote:
- the authentification scheme of MediaWiki will have to be modified.
The idea is somehow to delegate the authentification task to Pserv (also handling the case where a MediaWiki account needs to be created).
1.4 has an experimental authentication plugin system for precisely this kind of thing. Create a child class of AuthPlugin (see AuthPlugin.php) and override some methods. Set $wgAuth to an instance of this class.
It's not well documented as it's new and experimental and no one's really _used_ it at this point. It may need further work to really do what's necessary.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)