Extension:SimpleSAMLphp

The SimpleSAMLphp extension extends the PluggableAuth extension to provide authentication using SimpleSAMLphp.

Installation
This extension requires PluggableAuth and SimpleSAMLphp to be installed first.

Configuration parameters
Values must be provided for the following mandatory configuration variables:

In addition, the following optional configuration variable is provided:

Version 4.1

 * Implements Extension:PluggableAuth/PluggableAuthPopulateGroups hook to populate MediaWiki groups from SAML attributes. Thank you to Poikilotherm for contributing this functionality.

Version 4.0

 * Added optional error message to authenticate
 * Bumped version number to synchronize with PluggableAuth and OpenID Connect extensions

Known Bugs
If you are using MediaWiki 1.27 or later with PluggableAuth 2.0 or later, problems have been observed when SimpleSAMLphp is configured to use phpession for store.type. This may be due to T147161. To fix this, try to use  or use a different SimpleSAMLphp store type.