Thread:Extension talk:LDAP Authentication/What happens to the existing user accounts after the LDAP extension is enabled?

Hello,

I have a mediawiki running for the past two years and now I would like to hook it up with the corporate AD to enable single login. I have a few questions 1) What happens to the existing accounts? Can existing users still login to the wiki using the none LDAP accounts? 2) Can I retain the old accounts for a period of time? Obviously I would need to keep the old accounts for a little while so I can merge the old accounts with the corresponding new ones from the AD. 3) Since the AD is managed by a large corporation, it won't be easy to add additional users, groups and attributes to it. How do I configure users with different group right (Users, Administrator, Bureaucrats, etc) within MW after enabling AD without e.g. creating specific group in the AD? 4) How does the LDAP extension interact with the NetworkAuth extension which I use to authenticate by IP address a Google Search Appliance (the only way I know to get it to work)?

Thanks in advance!

-- Simon Woods, 17:52, 2 May 2010 (UTC)