Auth systems
Auth systems
Improvement of authentication and authorization systems, and adding new auth mechanisms such as OpenID and OAuth
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Rationale
editThere are several specific issues with the existing, authentication methods used on the WMF sites:
- Increasingly, 3rd party cookies are disabled in browsers
- Several bugs related to CentralAuth's single sign-on system
Additionally, several new features for authentication and authorization have been requested:
- OpenID
- OAuth
- Cross-wiki editing (Mobile, VisualEditor)
Timeline
editSummary:
- August 2013: SUL2 (fixing CentralAuth bugs and modernizing single-user signon for newer browsers)
- August 2013: Wikimedia-internal cross-wiki edit tokens
- November 2013: OAuth
- Delayed until sometime in 2014: OpenID
Documents
edit- Auth systems/SUL2 - Description of improved SUL setup
- Auth systems/OAuth - Plan for implementation of OAuth