The access to our Intranet is password protected. My management wants to remove the need for password access to media-wiki. – Is this possible without a major re-coding.

If it is how could it be implemented?

Thanks to all in advance – John

[@_ck_ Participant 17 years, 2 months ago]

What if someone within the company wants to pretend to be someone else and insult the manager on the forum? How would you authenticate who is who on the forum?

In any case what you probably want is the anonymous posting ability which I think a few people have tried hacking into bbPress with various success.

[@johntech Member 17 years, 2 months ago]

Hi _ck_

Thanks for replying so soon.

I have pointed this out to the MD and IT manager already. However they had already discussed it. This a is a very close-knit company. Basically I have been told that they do not care about such risks.

So how can it be done?

Thanks to all in advance – John

[@fel64 Member 17 years, 2 months ago]

> media-wiki

Why are you asking here about mediawiki?

For bb, you need to overwrite the pluggable functions responsible for logging dudes in. They’re all in bb-includes/pluggable.php, and you overwrite them as you would a wordpress pluggable: https://codex.wordpress.org/Pluggable_Functions

[@sambauers Participant 17 years, 2 months ago]

Assuming you are actually talking about bbPress, the best solution I can think of is to make your cookies expire a long time in the future. Then you just need to login once for each user as long as the cookie is there. Anonymous posting doesn’t sound like a solution as you probably still want to know who owns which messages.

To set the cookies to expire after ten years, save this to a file called “_loginExpiry.php” in my-plugins:

<?php

function bb_login($login, $password) {

if ( $user = bb_check_login( $login, $password ) ) {

bb_cookie( bb_get_option( 'usercookie' ), $user->user_login, strtotime("+10 years") );

bb_cookie( bb_get_option( 'passcookie' ), md5( $user->user_pass ), strtotime("+10 years") );

do_action('bb_user_login', (int) $user->ID );

}



return $user;

}

?>