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Use autocreate permission to create new users
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Author: mkosek

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Currently, OpenID extension check and use standard 'createaccount' permission to create mediawiki users for new users coming from OpenID authenticate.

This works OK unless I want to restrict anonymous account creation only to OpenID users and do not let anonymous users to create a new user via standard New user form. I had to set $wgOpenIDLoginOnly to true to achieve what I want, but it is suboptimal because existing non-openid users are not able to authenticate without OpenID.

This could be solved by using AuthPlugin capabilities (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/AuthPlugin) and creating new users with 'autocreate' permission so that I can configure mediawiki to only allow auth plugins like OpenID to create new users and forbid creating new users by anonymous users.

Version: master
Severity: normal
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46617
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54677

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 2:11 AM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-extensions-OpenID.
• bzimport set Reference to bz56660.
• bzimport created this task.Nov 6 2013, 9:01 AM
Wikinaut added a comment.Nov 6 2013, 9:20 AM

Hello, thanks for reporting this.

It appears to me, that your report is a duplicate or at least related to https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54677 . Pleas can you have a look ?

• bzimport added a comment.Nov 6 2013, 9:33 AM

mkosek wrote:

Not sure about Bug 54677, but 46617 looks very similar. Maybe all these 3 bugs can be fixed by subclassing of AuthPlugin and using it's capabilities.

Wikinaut added a comment.Nov 16 2013, 12:34 PM

@Ryan, Chris, other reporters:

THIS is at least partially what you wanted. My invitation to code-review:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/94977/

Code is live on http://openid-wiki.instance-proxy.wmflabs.org/wiki/ .

Special:Version should show you "4.00 20131115"

Please test.
Please code-review.
Please report., if the commit already solves your problem.

Be reminded, that commit is however not yet fully Auth-plugin compatible. (this is a goal, but cannot be done in short time, because I have to fix other pending issues, and I am alone working on that.)

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Kizule closed this task as Declined.Oct 25 2023, 2:37 PM
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Per T322820: Archive the OpenID extension.

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