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 that can authenticate the external user's credentials and give the users' groups from the authorization provider. The reason behind this separation is to allow a bit more abstraction between the local authentication layer and the actual verification of credentials. Regards, -- Tyler Romeo On 2/27/15 08:57, Legoktm wrote: > 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 supports and those it > should support in the future, without requiring tons of hooks or ugly hacks. > > Please leave comments and feedback on the talk page :) > > Thanks! > -- Legoktm > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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