Johannes Ernst wrote:
Various people have discussed the desirability of
single-sign-on for
Mediawiki installations.
I'm interested in the same thing and have been working on that for a
little bit.
So far: "It's working!" for 1.5rc4 ;-)
Well there is some code for single signon already, commited in August
2004 (so most probably available since 1.4.x).
The parameter is $wgSharedDB , should be set to a database name in wich
is a shared 'user' table. Seems experimental (read: wikipedia does not
use it).
The code from HEAD includes/Database.php :
function tableName( $name ) {
<snip>
if ( isset( $wgSharedDB ) && "{$this->mTablePrefix}user" == $name )
{
$name = "`$wgSharedDB`.`$name`";
} else {
# Standard quoting
$name = "`$name`";
}
<snip>
return $name;
My questions:
1) Is there any place where people interested in this subject "hang
out"? (like a wiki page somewhere, ...?)
2) Is this the right mailing list to discuss this?
You can find some kind of hackers in the MediaWiki-l mailing list, most
developers read it and _at least_ Brion (our release manager) answer ;)
You are actually posting on wikitech-l which is for WikiMedia setup
issues (same people, different issues).
cheers,
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