For the past 11 years, our wiki has authorized access to users in the DB of my forum software. This has worked over at least two LTS MW versions using two different flavors of authentication extensions. However, in my attempt to upgrade my wiki to current 1.39.1 LTS, I've discovered that my working extension, Extension:IPBAuthLogin relies on a deprecated method, getCanonicalName(). It's a really simple extension that works very nicely for our needs. Closed wiki with access only to forum members by matching normalized user names supplied by the forum DB. Wiki user management is super simple.
So if I am unable to sort that out, I think Auth remoteuser will work if I can get some direction on how to configure for this use case ... which seems a lot simpler than the other methods where more configuration instruction is provided. I posted more detailed information about that problem on the help desk to see if I can get any general advice.
But this extension should be my ace-in-the-hole if someone would be so kind as to give me some nudges.
Thank you!