[Mediawiki-l] Re: [WikiEN-l] REMOTE_USER instead of REMOTE_ADDR

[David Gerard]

The list for this sort of discussion is mediawiki-l, which is the list
about the software itself:

    http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

This question (auto-login to someone's NT login) has been asked a bit
recently, and several people have told of their ways to do this; you should
find the list archive of interest.

(cc and reply-to mediawiki-l)


- d.


Chris McIntosh (cmcintosh at gmail.com) [050507 06:03]:

> I am working on an Intranet where we are spinning off many wiki's per
> project. In the forseeable future we might have 5-10 separate
> instances of the Wiki's.
> 
> Because of this I would like to make it easy for people to move
> between the Wiki's without having to login each time.
> 
> A simple mod I just wrote will grab the REMOTE_USER which is their
> NTACCOUNT on our intranet and use that instead of IP.
> 
> I set a flag in LocalSettings to allow me to turn this on|off. 
> 
> My questions are: is this a good way to do this? Are there better
> ways? Will this break anything?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris McIntosh
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