yes, that is
exactly what it is intended for. it can use pretty much any
authentication mechanism, on any machine.
Sorry, I still don't get it,
acctually am more confusing.
On the auth plugin page
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/AuthPlugin, it tells two kinds of
plugins -- one is "Existing authentication plugins", and the other is
"Creating new authentication plugins".
The first one directs to Category:User identity extensions, which includes all different
kind of extensions (and the Auth viaMySQL extension).
The second one asks people to "write your own plugin", which is obviously not
what I could do because I am not good at PHP coding.
So, which one matches my need most?
Thanks,
Ross
There doesn't seem to be an existing auth plugin doing what you want, so
you need the second one. If you are not able to make it yourself, you
would need to get someone to make it for you.