Connect Cocalc by OAuth with MediaWiki (MediaWiki4IntraNet)

Revision as of 21:22, 29 March 2022

The Idea

CoCalc (my fork) is great service for scientific realtime collaboration (jupyter notebooks, latex editing, PDF articles sharing). But it is not suitable for creating Team Portal/Dashboard, and Team Knowledge Base. Lot of loosely connected projects, impossibility of consistenly linked/renamed pages, … So better to have MediaWiki (MediaWiki4IntraNet) + CoCalc with authorization on the MediaWiki. Additionaly to Content Features, this binging get interesting possibilities to Team Authorization. For example, «extensions/LdapAuthentication» allows MediaWiki authenticate by LDAP, but is is not possible without radical patching, add LDAP Auth to Cocalc.

So, how to do it.

For MediaWiki4IntraNet, install REL1_26 branch of our fork https://github.com/mediawiki4intranet/mediawiki-extensions-OAuth (branch REL1_26 unusable and need patch).

Add this to LocalSettings:

$wgGroupPermissions['user']['mwoauthproposeconsumer'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['mwoauthupdateownconsumer'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['mwoauthmanageconsumer'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['mwoauthsuppress'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['mwoauthviewsuppressed'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['mwoauthviewprivate'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['mwoauthmanagemygrants'] = true;

Register new client

… /Special:OAuthConsumerRegistration/propose

• Record consumer key and secret «You have been assigned a consumer token of xxxx and a secret token of yyyy. Please record these for future reference».

… /Special:OAuthConsumerRegistration/list

… /Special:OAuthManageConsumers

… /Special:OAuthManageConsumers/proposed

… Find appropriate row in table «oauth_register», column «oarc_grants» insert in cell rights:

["authonly", "authonlyprivate"]

Todo

Why where is not frontend interface for doing so? May be need patch.

Install Cocalc

• https://github.com/belonesox/cocalc branch «belonesox-stable» or «belonesox-oauth1».
• Go to PostgresQL database «SMC», table «passport_settings»