<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Oct 2, 2006, at 12:10 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">My (weak) suggestion at this point would be to keep identities</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">separate among wikis.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>This will require that people have to</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">re-authenticate when crossing a wiki boundary, but for most</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">sites that shouldn't be too much of an annoyance.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>If that's</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">really a serious obstacle for you, we can discuss it more here.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>You can use an external authentication method that is shared between sites, but single-sign-on is more a part of the PmWiki core where the sessions authenticate you.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>By this, I mean you can use a single MySQL database to manage the users for a group of wikis or fields.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I have not set up MySQL (AuthUserDbase or XesAuthUserDbase) to handle groups (yet?). I will be working on updating it so that they're combined in one recipe and databases are handled with ADOdb soon.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This would work if you use any external database -- or the .htpassword methods if all the wikis are on the same server.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The nice part is one only needs to sign up/validate once. One would have to log in at each wiki, probably.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Crisses</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>