Manual:external user table

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external user table

external_user tracked external user accounts, if ExternalAuthExternalAuth was used.

MediaWiki versions:

1.16 – 1.21

The table has been removed in MediaWiki 1.22MediaWiki 1.22 [1] along with the ExternalAuth functionality. AuthPluginAuthPlugin should be used instead.

Fields

eu_local_id

Foreign key to user_idManual:User table#user_id

eu_external_id

Some opaque identifier provided by the external database

Schema

MediaWiki versions:

1.16 – 1.21

DESCRIBE external_user;

+----------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field          | Type             | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+----------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| eu_local_id    | int(10) unsigned | NO   | PRI | NULL    |       |
| eu_external_id | varbinary(255)   | NO   | UNI | NULL    |       |
+----------------+------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+