[wpmu-trac] [WordPress MU Trac] #439: Request to Make wpmu-functions.php::wp_login() Overridable

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#439: Request to Make wpmu-functions.php::wp_login() Overridable
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 Reporter:  seanwedig    |       Owner:  somebody
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new     
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:          
Component:  component1   |     Version:          
 Severity:  major        |    Keywords:          
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 I would like to request the functionality to override {{{wpmu-
 functions.php::wp_login()}}} in mu-plugins, so as to allow alternate
 authentication via site-wide plugins.  This is tangentially related to the
 old ticket #137.

 This is to allow mu-plugins to override the {{{wp_login()}}} function if
 handling their own authentication method.  In specific, I'm referring to
 the LDAP Authentication plugin, which is used by a variety of Universities
 and Colleges for authentication with their WPMU installations.


 Previously (i.e., before 1.2.5a) this was possible by modifying {{{/wp-
 content/mu-plugins/pluggable.php}}} to simply add conditional {{{if
 (!function_exists('wp_login') ):}}} calls around {{{wp_login()}}}.  This
 is no longer possible, since the code for pluggable.php has moved into
 {{{/wp-includes/wpmu-functions.php}}}.

 Even if the {{{function_exists()}}} hack is employed, {{{/wp-includes
 /wpmu-functions.php}}} is loaded before any mu-plugins are, and so
 wp_login is not overriden via the hack.

 If there were some other means of overriding the method to maintain the
 plugin architecture, that would be great.

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