Last modified: 2007-05-20 12:36:39 UTC
I am using MediaWiki in an Intranet. The Web-Server is secured by a Single Sign On, but the mechanism is simmilar to htaccess. I would wish for the wiki to read the authentification data from the Web-server and use it for user identification. In combination with LDAP that would essentially be a Single Sign on.
I am also using MediaWiki in an Intranet. We also have Single Sign On. Any integration with http basic auth is highly desired. I have done some mild integration by pulling the REMOTE_USER variables and auto-populating some forms but it is rudimentary. We would like to be able to set up MediaWiki to trust REMOTE_USER (or some other server environment variable that contains the username) and not ask for passwords or keep account information in a seperate userstore. Integration with LDAP would be fine, but not required.
(In reply to comment #1) > I am also using MediaWiki in an Intranet. We also have Single Sign On. Any > integration with http basic auth is highly desired. I have done some mild > integration by pulling the REMOTE_USER variables and auto-populating some forms > but it is rudimentary. We would like to be able to set up MediaWiki to trust > REMOTE_USER (or some other server environment variable that contains the > username) and not ask for passwords or keep account information in a seperate > userstore. Integration with LDAP would be fine, but not required. I have written this for my intranet. Please read http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1360 "Auto-login / Auto-account-creation by hostname for intranet MediaWikis". The changes are only a very few lines in User.php. Please let me know, if you are interested, then I will send you the patch. For LDAP see Ryan Lane's patch http://meta.wikipedia.org/LDAP and http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=814 . Tom
This is implemented by two extensions: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:HttpAuth http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AutomaticREMOTE_USER They are part of the 'Authentication and Login' extensions: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Authentication_and_Login Marking bug as fixed.
