Hi everyone,
I am having currently to manage a big project that will relies on MediaWiki.
Basically I have a linux server (let's call it Pserv for Primary) with many
people having an account on it and those people will be the 'wiki' users.
For security reasons (PHP), mediawiki lies on a different machine (let's
call it Wserv for Wiki).
The project requires the wiki modifications to be restricted to the people
having an unix account on Pserv, and all modification should be
systematically authentified with the Pserv login. If an account is erased on
Pserv, then the associated user should not be able to modify the wiki on
Wserv any more.
Some thoughts:
- there are a lot of people (several thousands) to handle. Dupplicating on
Wserv the user management already done for Pserv is not a reasonnable
option.
- the authentification scheme of MediaWiki will have to be modified. The
idea is somehow to delegate the authentification task to Pserv (also
handling the case where a MediaWiki account needs to be created).
Question: how do I achieve that? Has anyone any experience with such a
situation?
Joannès