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  • Daniel Westermann-Clark — February 25, 2005 @ 5:29 pm

    You might also be interested in the work I’ve been doing to extend the authentication API to allow for authentication via plugins:

    http://dev.webadmin.ufl.edu/~dwc/wordpress/

    The project I’m doing this for has not been released yet, so I haven’t made much noise about it.

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  • Matt — February 25, 2005 @ 5:41 pm

    That looks really cool! I’ll test out that patch and we can have it in 1.5.1.

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  • Scott Johnson — February 26, 2005 @ 1:01 pm

    Wow, all of this new auth functionality will be really nice! 1.5 is already rock solid on its own, but with hooks into Apache’s authentication capabilities, a lot more doors will open.

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  • Andrew K — February 27, 2005 @ 3:17 pm

    Sweet :D
    Matt: Big business + MySQL? Good luck :(
    WE NEED ADOdb SUPPORT! One of my collegues ported WP1.2 to Oracle, but that can’t happen for every upgrade… I’ve gotten aproval for WP for both interal and external uses at work and this LDAP mod is fantastic, except there’s no chance of MySQL support :\

    Open up WordPress — let go of the single DB format!

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  • Daniel Westermann-Clark — February 28, 2005 @ 8:38 am

    Matt, I made a minor change to the authentication patch this morning. The check_passwords action now includes the username in its arguments.

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  • Basil Crow — February 28, 2005 @ 9:32 am

    Andrew: Doesn’t WP use Justin Vincent’s ezSQL, which supports many types of databases?

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  • Matt — February 28, 2005 @ 9:35 am

    But the SQL itself isn’t portable in all cases.

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  • Observer — February 28, 2005 @ 11:55 pm

    Maybe you want to read my note on a possible security flaw.

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