# Authentication

## Local Authentication

Currently this wiki is setup for local authentication it uses the following plugins to try and avoid spam

  * https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:preregister
  * https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:captcha


## Hacspace Authentation

If we want this to work with the manchester hackspace login instead then we'll need to be able to authenticate with the existing setup.  

According to Connor
> So the system uses standard laravel authentication to log in (laravel being the php framework the site is built in)  
> and for the forum SSO I just coded something which follows their guide here  
> https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-discourseconnect-official-single-sign-on-for-discourse-sso/13045

## Links

Full list of auth based plugins

  * https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugins?plugintype=128#extension__table

Subset list of OAUTH plugins

  * https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:oauth