On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:10 AM, John Erling Blad <[email protected]> wrote:
> Exporting authentication from Mediawiki by OAuth is probably both
> acceptable and interesting, even if OAuth is said to give a rather
> weak security. It could be that people are a bit confused about OAuth
> vs OpenID.
>
> In some of the projects where I've been involved the problem is not
> about exporting authentication, but more about how to log on to a
> Mediawiki-powered site from an other central site doing identity
> federation. The existing extensions don't handle this very well.
>
> Could it be possible to start a work on both importing and exporting
> identity, authentication and authorization, perhaps focusing on both
> SAML and OAuth? For serious use it seems to me that SAML is more
> important than OAuth, while the later is more widespread in social
> networks.
>
So, since we're discussing SAML and OAuth and OpenID, and such, I
should mention this:
http://simplesamlphp.org/
It supports SAML, OpenID, OAuth, it's extendable and it supports
multiple backends (LDAP, MySQL, etc). It is also localizable.
- Ryan
_______________________________________________
Wikitech-l mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
