Federated Wiki - Security Plug-in: Passport (Configuration)
May 5, 2026 ยท View on GitHub
It is recommended that this plug-in is configured using a configuration file, rather than via the command line.
Configuration of Passport security plug-ins is a two stage process:
- Registering an application with the identity provider, and
- Configuration of the wiki software using information returned in step 1.
The legacy Mozilla Persona Passport plug-in does not require any configuration.
This plug-in comes with support for using GitHub, Google, Twitter, and generic OAuth. Although the configuration process is broadly the same for each of these, there are some slight differences.
As a wiki server owner you need to pick one, or more, of these that you want to use.
See, depending on which identity provider you choose to use:
With all of the providers above you are also able to configure sites on your farm to be Login to View. This means only specified visitors are allowed to view the site's content, rather than it being public on the web. The following page explains how to configure the login-to-view system: