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Matthew Simoneau wrote:
> I'm interested using MediaWiki as our intranet wiki. Rather than making
> everyone create a new account, I am hoping to find an easy way to hook
> the login into our existing LDAP database. One low-tech way to do this
> is to shell out of PHP and somehow ask UNIX. Has anyone looked into
> this before?

Note that PHP has an optional LDAP module: http://www.php.net/ldap

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

On 24 Aug 2004, at 11:16, Brion Vibber wrote:
> Matthew Simoneau wrote:
>> I'm interested using MediaWiki as our intranet wiki. Rather than
>> making
>> everyone create a new account, I am hoping to find an easy way to hook
>> the login into our existing LDAP database. One low-tech way to do
>> this
>> is to shell out of PHP and somehow ask UNIX. Has anyone looked into
>> this before?
>
> Note that PHP has an optional LDAP module: http://www.php.net/ldap

Hey Matthew,

Did you ever pursue this? Any feedback to offer? I need to do the same
thing, and I'd rather learn from your mistakes than make them myself.
;)

Jim Vanderveen, IT Manager
Office of Water Programs, Calif State University Sacramento
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On Wednesday 27 October 2004 20:51, Jim Vanderveen wrote:
> > Matthew Simoneau wrote:
> > Note that PHP has an optional LDAP module: http://www.php.net/ldap

> Did you ever pursue this? Any feedback to offer? I need to do the same

Me too.

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