Thread:Extension talk:LDAP Authentication/To use LDAP or OpenID?

Hi all,

I have installed MediaWiki on my site in the usual manner. However, I do not want to use the mediawiki's login/members portion of the code. While MediaWiki is a great piece of software, I can't do everything I want with it. I may have different domains providing different segments of the site. At least there will be different segments with the wiki being one of them. So, I need to manage users outside of the wiki code.

I'm interested in LDAP and OpedID. But I'm not sure which way to go. I guess I don't know what is involved in LDAP to make it work, that is, I can't seem to find a general overview of how it works and what the big parts of it are and how it works as a system.

I've been mucking around with php and asp.net for a few years, but this is a bit more advanced than what I've done in the past. Can someone give me the big picture? Some thing I can have a place to start?

Thanks