Hi all I'm building a site in mediawiki and I'm interested in getting a single signon service running across the entire site. I'm using MovableType and PunBB as components on the rest of the site. so I am interested in either using Six Apart's typekey as a remote auth service or the typekey-a-like TinyOrwell.
Essentially replacing the authentication services within mediawiki with an external service I've seen a variety of articles that head in the right direction, but not yet cracked it. I can't use LDAP as the users will be on the wider internet, hence looking at other tools.
Some background http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Authentication is the basic article on how server side authentication works and can be modified on mediawiki, it links to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Web_Server_authentication which links to the following implementation http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/ 13943/ showing how to do a simple remote server auth over http there are a couple of typekey resources, http://del.icio.us/tag/typekey and http://typekey.torrez.org/guide/show/HomePage
Here are some implementations http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=164 is an Auth_TypeKey package for PEAR for PHP http://www.neilturner.me.uk/resources/phptypekey.html -- typekey in PHP for MT http://uva.jp/dh/mt/archives/004510.html - japanese php typekey module http://www.movabletype.org/docs/tk-apps.html -- 6A notes on typekey usage
there is also tinyOrwell http://www.sixapart.com/pronet/plugins/plugin/tinyorwell.html
Would anyone else on the list be interested in helping me to solve this ? I think that there is sufficient in this material to implement it correctly I'm looking for guidance before I plunge in over my head many thanks Gavin ---- Gavin Bell w - takeoneonion.org (weblog) w - gavinbell.com e - gavinbell at mac.com