[Mediawiki-l] External Authorization

[Platonides]

Christopher.Reigrut wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi, all!  I'm working on integrating Mediawiki with our internal access
> controls (specifically, Tivoli Access Manager).  I have authentication
> working via a custom AuthPlugin, and now I'm starting on external
> authorization.
> 
> Our plan is to have two groups:  Users and Administrators.  These will be
> administered through Tivoli (and I'm already getting the groups during my
> auto-login process).  IDs with neither group will have read-only access,
> IDs in the User group will be able to edit, move, etc, and Administrators
> will have the remaining access (basically, the same as Sysop).
> 
> What's the best way to accomplish this?  userCan hooks?  Modify User.php?
> Something else?

You want to achieve the same as mediawiki user groups. AS i suppose you 
won't want to make the external tool modifiy the Users and 
Administrators group, what about doing the hack in the checking for the 
groups a user is in?