Hi!
Anomie, bd808, CSteipp, and myself have been working on updating Tyler's
previous AuthStack RfC:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/AuthManager.
Our goal is to build an authentication system that is flexible enough to
support the variety of usecases that MW currently
The primary vision I had with this RFC was to separate the idea of a
MediaWiki user and an external authentication provider.
In other words, an individual is logging in as a local user, and that
user may be associated with one or more external users. Each external
user is linked via a provider
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
The primary vision I had with this RFC was to separate the idea of a
MediaWiki user and an external authentication provider.
In other words, an individual is logging in as a local user, and that
user may be associated
Hi Legoktm et al!
Thanks for filing the RFC. We have started to track RFCs on Phabricator now - as
I can see, you have already created a ticket. Excellent! I have cross-linked it
from the wiki page now. Since you asked for comments and feedback, I have put
the ticket on the to discuss column of
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
and give the users' groups from the authorization provider.
Note we have no mention of this in the authentication RFC, since we're
being careful to separate *authentication* (authn) from *authorization*
(authz). We have
