Comments on: http-authentication 2.0

By: dwc

dwc — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:40:46 +0000

Bret,

By all means, send me an email (my username at this site (dwc) followed by the second-level domain (ufl.edu)). I’d definitely like to work on making the plugin support WordPress MU natively.

By: Bret McMillan

Bret McMillan — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:14:03 +0000

I’ve been doing some wordpress-mu work lately, prepping it for inclusion in Fedora and internal usage. I’ve hacked up a version that works for our purposes, and would like to discuss whether we can make your code natively support either wp or wpmu.

Cheers!

By: dwc

dwc — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:58:30 +0000

@rbroemeling: Thanks for the patch! I’ve applied it to trunk:

http://dev.wp-plugins.org/changeset/54145

By: rbroemeling

rbroemeling — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:42:50 +0000

I’m using the HTTP authentication plugin on a combined blog/mail server. It works great, and it lets me pull the user management into a single place. Thanks for the tool!

The one thing that I needed to change was the $email_domain. On my server, the user name is a full e-mail address (i.e. login is ‘user@example.com’), so appending ‘@$email_domain’ to it actually corrupts the e-mail address.

What I ended up doing is leaving $email_domain blank, and then changing the wp_create_user call in http-authentication.php (line 139) to be:

“wp_create_user($username, $password, $username . ($email_domain ? ‘@’ . $email_domain : ”));”

This little one-line fix made the HTTP authentication plugin do exactly what I wanted it to… I think it is probably non-intrusive enough to be folded into the main distribution as well?

Anyway, thanks for a great plugin.

By: Flavien

Flavien — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:03:53 +0000

Took me some time, but I’ve posted a patched version that apparently works:

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By: Flavien

Flavien — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:14:46 +0000

@Rod: Same issue here.

I’m trying to merge the code together, but I’m not fluent in PHP. Has anyone done the grunt work and have something that I could test? I’ll happily beta-test it.

Thanks for you work!

By: dwc

dwc — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:52:19 +0000

@Rod: I haven’t used MU, to be honest. I assume that MU has different functions for getting and setting options, since they could be site specified.

Someone previously updated the plugin to work with MU:

http://orthrus.blogspot.com/2008/01/http-authentication-for-wordpress-mu.html

But I have not had a chance to talk with him and try to incorporate the changes into the main plugin. Let me know if you find out anything more!

By: Rod

Rod — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:06:39 +0000

Hi — I’ve installed http-authentication 2.0 with the latest version of WordPressMU and it _mostly_ works well. The only aspect that is not working is setting the options:

Logout URL
Automatically create accounts
Email address domain

Making a change to these fields gives me the message:

Are you sure you want to do this?
Please try again.

The changed options never get stored. Needless to say, trying again does not work. Anyone else see this issue?

Thanks for producing a great plugin!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:54:11 +0000

Hi,

I adapted your plugin for Active Directory. I don’t see your email listed, so I’m leaving a note here.

I really have no idea what the proper etiquette is when one modifies software as such, but in any case, thank you very much for this plugin. It was enormously helpful. WordPress’s documentation was not particularly helpful, and the references to non-existent code within WordPress (e.g. wp-signon) seemed daunting. Using HTTP Authentication as a base, it was very easy to extend for AD authentication. (I’ve sent a submission to wordpress.org so others can use this.)

Thanks again.