Ross Xu wrote: > Actually, an idea just came to my mind ... > > As we all know, MediaWiki uses MySQL ($wgDBname) for authentication by > default already. > If we could let user login query go to another database, instead of the > default one $wgDBname, that would solve the problem, and it is much easier > and simpler than using the Auth viaMySQL extension. > > The question is ... > How could we simply redirect the login query to another database? > > Thanks again, > Ross
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings#Shared_DB_settings However, that won't work since your table won't have the data in the same format as MediaWiki. You need an auth plugin. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
