Plexcel Plugins for MediaWiki, Joomla! and SugarCRM

Plexcel MediaWiki Plugin

The Plexcel MediaWiki Plugin seamlessly adds Active Directory authentication and access control to MediaWiki. This plugin has the following features.

Active Directory SPNEGO Single Sign-On (SSO)
User Information Populated from Active Directory
Explicit Login with Username and Password
Configurable Username Canonicalization
Windows Group Based Access Control List (ACL)
Automatic Directory Location
No setup on Windows side required
Superior Security of Kerberos
Internationalization (I18N)

Authentication

The Plexcel MediaWiki Plugin can authenticate clients against Active Directory using Single Sign-On (SSO) or by explicit login using the standard login form.

The default behavior is to authenticate clients using SSO. Users will not need to repeatedly enter their username and password. Just visiting the site will trigger the browser to automatically authenticate the client and pass the user's information to the web server.

Alternatively they may also use the standard login form. If the client does not support SSO (e.g. because they are not logged into the domain) authentication will fall-back to the login form.

Windows Group Based Authentication Control

The Plexcel MediaWiki Plugin employs an authentication ACL that can be used to restrict who can authenticate with MediaWiki to specific Windows groups. Delegate the responsibility of granting access to the wiki and leverage your existing IT infrastructure. The full range of Windows group name forms may be used (no awkward LDAP DN strings). These access checks are also very fast. Once the group names in your ACL have been resolved, no communication with the domain is required for subsequent requests.

Automatic Directory Location

Plexcel will automatically locate AD servers. Very little configuration of the Plexcel module is necessary. If you have multiple AD servers, Plexcel will load balance between them (unless DNS is configured to do otherwise).

Easy Installation

Plexcel comes with an easy to use installer that will locate your AD server, create the necessary HTTP service account and set it's password. After restarting Apache, just copy the PlexcelAuth directory into the MediaWiki extensions directory and add a few lines to your LocalSettings.php. No modifications on the Windows side are necessary. Installation takes only a few minutes.

Please read the Plexcel MediaWiki Plugin Manual available on the Support page for detailed requirements and installation instructions.

To download this package, please visit the Downloads page.