[SAC] Fwd: Legit users vs. spam users

[Alex Mandel]

On 11/24/2015 01:08 AM, Markus Neteler wrote:
> 
>>                         dbb             we had a tech add LDAP login very recently, and upgrade the version
>>                         dbb             we use our LDAP heavily for other sites
> 
> Please teach us how to connect our Wiki to LDAP. Martin Spott could
> not figure that out.
> 
>>                         MaxSem          I don't see LDAP auth at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Special:Version
> 
> Yes, we don't have it yet since we don't know how to implement the
> connection between our Wiki and our LDAP.
> 
>>                         anchit
>>                         MaxSem          anchit, mentor? are you a developer?
>>                         MaxSem          dbb, meanwhile +2 accounts
>>                         dbb             ugh
>>                         dbb             ..
>>                         MaxSem          disable creation, then figure out what to do
>>                         dbb             whats the best way to disable ?
>>                         MaxSem          !access
>>                         wm-bot          For information on customizing user access, see <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:User_rights>. For common examples of restricting access using both rights and extensions, see <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access>.
>>
>>                         in other words, $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
> 
> Time to switch that on?
> 
> Markus

The only tricky part with LDAP is that we need some way for people to
link their LDAP login with existing accounts (and they need to know the
password for both).

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LDAP_Authentication

Alex