[Mediawiki-l] External authentication (e.g. siteminder)

[Joshua Yeidel]

Our approach is to auto-create accounts in MW if the user presents to the
authentication routine with a valid "netid" (enterprise account).  There is
a hook in the authentication plugin which helps with this.

[ Just beginning to code this, so this approach is not yet running... ]

-- Joshua



On 7/14/05 9:49 AM, "Cary Collett" <cary at ratatosk.org> wrote:

> 
> Hello!
> 
> 
> I'm new to the list, but have been using the mediawiki for a
> few months now, and am now interested in trying to introduce
> into my workplace.
> 
> One of the show stoppers, at least as near as I can tell, is
> our use of SiteMinder for user auth. I'm wondering how difficult
> it would be to get MediaWiki to play with it.
> 
> Protecting the site is easy, obviously. But how to get MW to
> use the SM username when attributing edits? And we don't want
> to do something crazy like have to load all our company IDs
> into the MW user database.
> 
> For what it's worth, I'm not too worried about admins. I think
> we'd be able to just create 'real' MW accounts which match the
> individuals SM usernames. This is just a hunch, so correct me
> if I'm wrong.
> 
> 
> Cary