Am Donnerstag, 9. Juni 2005 21:41 schrieb cactus: > In all honesty, phpbb is not the safest piece of software out there. I > would hate to have other resources authenticating against it. If > anything, I think it would be cool to have an ldap directory setup for > aggregating all the various ArchLinux web resources (aur, forums, wiki). > Then just authenticate against that.
You just have to write a plugin which authenticates against the mysql-db which phpbb uses. I don`t see any scurity-problems there...it`s not that big difference if you use mysql oder ldap for this. > > But, failing that, I think the benefit (user not having to create a new > account, which takes 15 seconds *maybe*) does not outweigh the > management hassle, and other detriments. > > I would be willing to help work on ldap account aggregation, though. > Would be a nice way to fiddle around with the fedora-directory-server > too. :P > > Pierre Schmitz wrote: > > MediaWiki supports a AuthPlugin-Class. You have just to implement a few > > lines to authenticated against whatever you want. > > > > Am Donnerstag, 9. Juni 2005 20:57 schrieb cactus: > >>Unfortunately, I doubt this is workable. MediaWiki stores some user > >>information, like password, in a binary blob table col. I think the > >>safest and most reliable mechanism would be for each user interested in > >>working on the wiki to take the 15 seconds or so needed to create an > >>account, and do so. > >> > >>An added benefit pertains to the considerable amount of inactive user > >>accounts on the forums. No need creating those. > >> > >>Pierre Schmitz wrote: > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>it would be nice if we could use our forum-account with the wiki. So we > >>>have not to register twice. > >>> > >>>PS: Nice to see NO future for the �$&%/ phpWiki ;-) > >>> > >>>Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz http://archlinux.laber-land.de _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
