[Mediawiki-l] Single-sign one without Extension:CentralAuth?

Daniel Friesen lists at nadir-seen-fire.com
Mon Feb 28 17:32:59 UTC 2011


Are all your wiki on the same domain (as subdomains or subdirectories) 
or separate domains?

~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]

On 11-02-28 09:10 AM, Gregor Hagedorn wrote:
> We have a wikifarm with a number of wikis and central media
> repositories. We are missing a single sign-on - presently, if someone
> is signed into a wiki and uploads a file, this one has to sign in a
> second time.
>
> The "obvious" solution is to do the same as wikimedia, i.e.
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CentralAuth
>
> However, the page above warns in no unclear words to rather use
> $wgSharedDB (which we already do). But while this offers
> single-authorization ("password storage"), it provides no single-sign
> on.
>
> Advice? What are our options?
>
> thanks!
>
> Gregor
>
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