Johannes Ernst wrote:
Various people have discussed the desirability of single-sign-on for Mediawiki installations. I'm interested in the same thing and have been working on that for a little bit.
So far: "It's working!" for 1.5rc4 ;-)
Well there is some code for single signon already, commited in August 2004 (so most probably available since 1.4.x).
The parameter is $wgSharedDB , should be set to a database name in wich is a shared 'user' table. Seems experimental (read: wikipedia does not use it).
The code from HEAD includes/Database.php :
function tableName( $name ) { <snip> if ( isset( $wgSharedDB ) && "{$this->mTablePrefix}user" == $name ) { $name = "`$wgSharedDB`.`$name`"; } else { # Standard quoting $name = "`$name`"; } <snip> return $name;
My questions:
- Is there any place where people interested in this subject "hang
out"? (like a wiki page somewhere, ...?) 2) Is this the right mailing list to discuss this?
You can find some kind of hackers in the MediaWiki-l mailing list, most developers read it and _at least_ Brion (our release manager) answer ;)
You are actually posting on wikitech-l which is for WikiMedia setup issues (same people, different issues).
cheers,