[Mediawiki-l] Removing User Preference to Change Password

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I'm interested to learn more about authentication into MediaWiki via
other means.  Is there documentation on doing this kind of
authentication stuff?



On 8/15/05, Joshua Yeidel <yeidel at wsu.edu> wrote:
> I checked the archives of this list (thanks, Gmane
> <http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki>), without success.
> 
> We are using our own AuthPlugin to authenticate via LDAP against Active
> Directory, with a "fall-through" for accounts that are not defined in AD.
> We would like to present the password-change part of the User Preferences
> panel _only_ to those users who are _not_ authenticated against Active
> Directory.
> 
> We are on 1.4.7 now, with 1.5 upgrade probably not until January.  Any
> suggestions about the cleanest way to implement this in 1.4.7 or in 1.5?
> 
> Thanks in advance.