[Mediawiki-l] Encrypted user login

[Jimmy Collins]

Hi Stefan,

why not just using https ?

Cheers,
Jimmy

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> Hello everybody,
> 
> I am using Mediawiki 1.67 with Apache and PHP5 and my question is about 
> an encrypted user authentication. I want to make sure that user name and 
> password cannot be seen when e.g. wiki users use public wireless LAN 
> hotspots.
> 
> I found
> 
>   http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Otheus/Auto_Login_via_REMOTE_USER 
> 
> but it seems to be rather complicated. Is the article above still up to 
> date or has Mediawiki 1.7 this feature which I have simply to enable via 
> LocalSettings.php? What do you think is the easiest way to get the 
> authentication encrypted?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Stefan Mueller
> 
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