[dokuwiki] trustExternal, existing cookies
- From: Brett Fountain <email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:09:20 -0500
Hello ~
Firstly, I want to thank Andi very much, and anyone else who has been
involved in development -- this looks like a great tool! I got the
2007-06-26b version and it looks quite useful.
I have been all over your site and read all the documentation I can
find, and I'm embarrassed to say that I have been tweaking settings
for several days (!); yet I cannot seem to get this one simple thing
accomplished thus far:
**
I want to DokuWiki to use external cookie authentication: considering
someone "authenticated" if they have certain cookies (name, email,
groups) already set when they come to the wiki. If they don't yet
have those cookies set, I want the wiki to bump them to a URL where
they'll be authenticated. Seems easy enough, eh?
I don't want to manage wiki users, I don't want to create/delete
users (or have the wiki doing it), I don't want there to be any
usernames or passwords to deal with -- nothing. If a user comes to
the wiki with a cookie that says they're in the editors group, then
fine, they are. DokuWiki lets them have those editing permissions,
and stamps their name/email on whatever they edit, again, based on
what their cookie said for their name/email.
**
I've created the groups and permissions within DokuWiki, and I've
tweaked everything I can think of. I can't find much documentation,
but here is what I've done... or at least how it stands right now:
in /inc/auth/xcookies.class.php (made a copy of basic.class.php),
renamed the class and the function from _basic to _xcookies
set 'external' and 'logoff' => true; everything else false
in trustExternal, uncommented the 7 lines with variables,
and set those 3 USERINFO variables from my cookies
in checkPass, commented out the msg() and changed return to true
in /conf/local.php,
$conf['authtype']='xcookies';
When I visit the wiki start page, it should treat me as logged in,
since I have the cookies set... but instead, it provides me the Login
button... and when I click it, all it does is the normal asking for
my username and password... and even if I put in the superuser info,
it doesn't login. No error messages, it just comes back to the start
page and the Login button is still there.
**
I would appreciate any help... either pointing out what is missing or
wrong with my code tweaks, or giving me a URL with pertinent
details... something. (I haven't been able to find any good,
detailed official documentation so far, but I have found a few
helpful bits of info from various places online.)
Thank you! ~
Brett
PS - That loginredirector plugin looks handy, but I can't get that to
work either. It keeps saying it doesn't have sufficient rights to
include that file referenced by the 'url' variable, and *everything*
dies. It's on an XP box, so I don't have chmod or anything like
that. (Every file has the same permissions.) I tried putting
DokuWiki+loginredirector into a hosted Linux environment, just out of
curiosity... but had so many problems with authentication (above)
that I don't know where all the weirdness is even coming from. Right
now I'm running without loginredirector, until I can get this
external auth bit working.
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