[SAC] Spam in Wiki

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

Tested my login, worked seamlessly.  Good move!
Thanks.


----- Original message -----
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 04:50:55PM +0200, Martin Spott wrote:
> 
> > I was just thinking of migrating the current OSGeo Wiki over to OSGeo
> > LDAP authentication this weekend. I'll create a test instance on
> > Saturday and if things are working as expected, then I'll merge the
> > config changes over to the main Wiki.
> 
> Ok, please test your LDAP accounts against:
> 
>     http://wiki2.osgeo.org/
> 
> ....   and report here.
> 
> It took a while for me to figure that MediaWiki LDAP authentication
> won't work without having LDAP support available in PHP - I simply
> forgot to install the corresponding distro package   :-)
> 
> Four items worth noting:
> 
> 1.) While the old "User" pages are not going to vanish, every user has
> to take care for migrating the content of their user pages over to the
> new Wiki user name. In most cases that's a copy-and-paste job - except
> from those where you're inheriting a different user ID (see 3.). I
> think we should lock the user pages against writing upon migration and
> give every Wiki user the chance to copy their own user page into a
> local text file.
> 
> 2.) Usernames in edit histories are most certainly going to be messed
> up - except from those people who were using the same account name on
> OSGeo LDAP and the Wiki. We should have a special page so every Wiki
> could tell us how to map their old Wiki user name to the LDAP login
> (might help with user pages and preferences as well).
> 
> 3.) User preferences: If your OSGeo LDAP account name was formerly
> being used by a different person as Wiki login, you're going to inherit
> their user preferences - might be a slightly delicate topic ....
> 
> 4.) Should we establish LDAP groups in order to map Wiki "User Rights"
> via the directory ? This would either mean to disable the usual user
> rights management in the Wiki or to allow writing to the LDAP directory
> from the Wiki - whereas I'm uncertain if we really want to allow the
> latter one for security measures.
> 
> Have fun,
>     Martin.
> -- 
>   Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are
> !
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