Extension talk:IPBAuth

Note: Before posting here, make sure you are at v1.33a and have run the installer. A reinstall will tend to fix most problems. If you're still having an issue, THEN post! :)

I have a question - how can we handle user rights? For example in IPB I have a group Moderator and I'd like only people from this group to aprove new articles in my wiki. Is it possible to achive such solution using this extension?

MZXGiant: At this time, the only type of user rights management enabled is "sysop or not". Essentially, you can mark the moderators etc. as sysops on the wiki and they'll be able to approve new articles, but they will have a load of other rights as well. If this is something in high demand I'll consider adding support for more groups in the future.

YacentY:we have huge ammount of users in our community - it would be great to automatically move moderators to wiki, it could be hard to decide manually which user is moderator or not

cowell Moderation approve would be needed. I'd add to these permissions that to allow change moderations also.

MZXGiant: I don't plan on looking much at IPBAuth for new features until the turn of 2011, but you should be able to manually assign MediaWiki permissions after the user's first login if you need more customized setups.

MZXGiant: To clarify, if you have moderators or admins, you can designate them as Wiki sysops, which will give them the ability to moderate in the wiki. However, you cannot have specific "moderator" groups beyond that within the wiki. If you're unsure or want to see what I'm talking about, download the plugin and run the installer and it will step you through the process and show you how it is currently being done.

Is it safe to use this mw and this extension on one server and IPB on second server?

MZXGiant: Yes. However, the installer won't be able to help you pick out your settings for connection in that case; you'll have to input it manually. I'm not sure a lot of people have tried this configuration at all, so please let me know if you run into any bugs!

I hope we will try to do this in few next days, or maybe we would move wiki to the same server