[Mediawiki-l] Registering wiki and forum both in one. Login/logout wiki and forum both in one.

[George Herbert]

On 8/29/06, wiki at avenarius.sk <wiki at avenarius.sk> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, 29th August 2006 at 17:27:41 (GMT -0400), David Pace wrote:
>
> >> I need this feature for my website:
> >> 1. User only has to register once, then he/she will be a member in
> >> both the wiki and forum;
> >> 2. After user logs on in either the forum or wiki, he/she will have
> >> logged on in the other.
> >> 3. After user logs out in either the forum or wiki, he/she will have
> >> logged out in the other.
>
> > I think this might be what you are looking for:
> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PHPBB/Users_Integration
> > Hopefully this helps.
>
>
> No, that won't help. We couldn't even get basic integration working:
> none of our users with diacritic letters in their username could log
> into the wiki.
>
> Besides, the solution at the above link only attempts basic
> integration of user tables, nothing more.
>
> Wang Jerry's wishes are immodest indeed, and they sound like science
> fiction to me... Maybe in 2010 or 2015 these things will be possible,
> not today, alas...
>
> --
> Yours,
> Alex.
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Have you looked at the LDAP user authentication stuff?

I'm just getting started looking at that myself, but it might be part of a
solution for you.


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-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com