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[Jason Keltz <jas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/29/07 17:43, Mark McCoy wrote:
> On 8/24/07, Jason Keltz <jas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I'm wondering whether it is possible to share authentication information
> > between local DokuWikis.  That is, I have a whole bunch of wikis served by
> > the same system that have the same user base.  I have my own custom
> > DokuWiki authentication module for authenticating our users in DW.  I
> > would like to have a web page where a user signs in, and from there, they
> > can access any of the local DokuWikis as if they have logged in.  Each of
> > the wikis can have different ACLs, etc.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Jason.
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> We use the built-in LDAP authentication for this.  You can even use
> the LDAP groups to handle ACL's.
Hi Mark.

I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing.  I would like to be 
able to authenticate once to one Wiki, and then as long as my other 
Wikis are using the same authentication back-end, I don't want to have 
to login again to the others.  I should appear as already having logged 
in.  I'm already sharing the same authentication information between 
Wikis, and that works, but I still have to login with the same username 
and password to all of my wikis.  I wonder if its possible to share the 
authentication "cookie".  Can anyone explain how the cookies work with 
DokuWiki and whether this is possible?
(Basically, I have a bunch of "course" Wikis all for different courses 
in our department.  I want a "student" to be able to login once, and 
then they can access all the Wikis.  I guess it's the kind of thing I 
could do if I was using htaccess authentication, but then the user 
couldn't logout without closing the browser, and I'd lose using the User 
Manager, etc..)
Jason.

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