[Mediawiki-l] Using $_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'] for authorisation/log-in

[Damir Perisa]

Hi MediaWiki Sysops/Admins/Devs,
Hi readers of this ML,

I'm working on a Portal for an NGO. The public Wiki (using MediaWiki) i 
already installed + configured and it works great - MediaWiki is a really 
great written piece of work! (i really like the xhtml template! this made 
the integration sooo easy!!!! thanx!!! ;-) (after making it public, i 
will announce the "CP-Wiki" here and everywhere else)

Now i'm trying to find the best Wiki-Engine, that is able to work in the 
Member-Section of this NGO. 

All the advantages of the MediaWiki are suiting me well and i want to use 
it as well in the Member-Section as well as on the public area. 

The thing is: As Members are already identified/logged-in (folder access) 
in the Member Section, i don't want to have a second log-in for the Wiki 
to confuse the people ... and other people are per definition not 
accessing this closed WIKI ;-)

My question is therefore:

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Is it possible to make use of $_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'] for user-management 
in MediaWiki? 

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If it is not "out-of-the-box" possible, i would be happy hearing, that 
someone else is doing it this way. Sharing experiences would be nice ;-)
This mainly, because i know, that if i would hack mediawiki to support 
something like this (i didn't yet had much time to have a look at the 
code in detail), and then mediawiki gets updated to a version that breaks 
my code, i would be needing again some hours to make it work again ... 
and this for each new version, that breaks my things :-(

Every kind of feedback is welcome! If you know a wiki engine, that suits 
better for such a situation, feel free to let me know.

Thank you for reading this and THANK YOU VERY MUCH in advance for any 
input on this subject,

Best Regards,

Damir Perisa

-- 
He who fears the unknown may one day flee from his own backside.
  -- Sinbad
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