[SAC] Re: [OSGeo] #103: Move main OSGeo Wiki to OSGeo infrastructure

[Frank Warmerdam]

Martin Spott wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 09:46:43PM -0000, OSGeo wrote:
> 
>>  Mediawiki LDAP authentication seems well discussed at:
> 
> Bare MediaWiki LDAP authentication itself is not a big issue.
> 
> BUT first we have to pour all the missing Wiki users into the LDAP
> directory (those who don't already have an OSGeo account). Certainly
> the funniest part is to find out those users, which use different user
> names for the Wiki an OSGeo and to decide how to deal with these.
> 
> I myself am such a case ....  Cheerio,
> 
> Well, now we're in a better situation than before because we now can
> read the Wiki user database  :-)

Martin,

I'm of the opinion that we should flush the existing wiki userids, and
just get people to login with OSGeo userids, with a pointer to where to
get one.  I just hate to think of all those extra userids getting dumped
into LDAP.

However, if it is easy to first check the existing userids in mysql, and
then fallback to LDAP that would be great, and minimize the disruption.

Best regards,
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