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.

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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

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yacenty: MZXGiant please send me an email to the gmail account - same as nick here. I have some very detailed technical questions connected with Your extension and my site - I would not share it public now, when we would found a soultion than we could share it. Thanks and regards

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Is it possible to include some sort of IPB-group based permission system for mediawiki? Something like to restrict access to pages based on IPB Group memberships? Genesis2001 02:59, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

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jawatkin:: Running IPB 3.1.4 and having trouble with SSO and recognition of the IPB usernames within the MW installation.... Also, the existing WikiSysop account on the MW installation won't allow login if the IPBAuth.php is included. Any ideas?

MZXGiant: Can you elaborate a bit on the SSO/recognition issues? Any special characters in the usernames? PHP errors? Also, when running auth extension plugins, the system is not configured to fall back to "local" authentication.

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GrayMage Insalling this on ipb v3.1.4 make some correction code for correct installing in file installing.php near line 444

mysql_select_db($params['dbDatabase'], $sql); mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8"); // add this line for correct work with non latin char $r = mysql_query("SELECT g_id,g_title,g_access_cp,g_post_new_topics FROM forum_groups", $sql); // my forum prefix is FORUM_. you correct prefix in original world - "ibf_groups" $arr = array;

MZXGiant: Thanks for the contribution! I'll make sure to check for UTF-8 support in future versions. Also it looks like the ibf_groups prefix issue in that query was an oversight on my part while writing the installer. Whoops!

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la5v3gas: I suggest you to make XML-RPC support. SQL queries are not safe, for example if your MW and IPB located on different servers. Also I can help you to make this solution (develop IPB API method and modify IPBAuth plugin). Best regards,

MZXGiant: Thanks, I had thought of that because of the cleartext element. I welcome assistance with this, as I am for the most part working on this extension on my own time. I plan on fixing some bugs and trying to extend the capabilities more in the next month or so, but if you'd like to try your hand with the XML-RPC for what I have up now, it would be appreciated (and I don't see myself deviating from the base of this too much)

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wasd: Not works under Debian, PHP 5.3, IPB 3.0.4, latest mediawiki. It says 'incorrect password' even if I entered secret key and login not works with IPB's password. How to fix it? If you want technical details, please contact me: wasd94@gmail.com (I'll visit this page in future).

MZXGiant: Can you check if you use GrayMage's fix (seen above) to support UTF-8 user names? That may cause locale issues on non-US installations. I will be working a bit more on this in the coming weeks to stomp down any outstanding bugs.

wasd: I didn't used it. Now I enabled it, it not works. Oh, /me sad and not knows PHP, only C :(

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yacenty: Hello I have some strange problem. I had decided to have only one group from IPB to have admin rights in mw. Then I had decided to select some users and promote them to the administrator group directly in mw. unfortunatelly their rights disapear everynight. 5 days in row I had promoted few users and everyday in the morning they are regular users.

What's up? is it connected with IPBauth or is it pure mw issue?

How to fix it?

Still in development?
Hello!

Are you still working on this component? I mean if it is compatible with the latest version of IPB and mediawiki? I would really like to use it on my new site, but i want to know if its stable and safe enough.

Please could you respond here or send me an email? feli06@battlefield3news.com

Thanks in advance!

MediaWiki 1.17
Hello does it works with MediaWiki 1.17? when it will be working?