Manual:external_user table

The external_user table tracked external user accounts, if ExternalAuth via AuthPlugin was used.

The table has been removed in MediaWiki 1.22 gerrit:54900 along with the ExternalAuth functionality. AuthManager should be used instead.

Foreign key to user_id

Some opaque identifier provided by the external database

DESCRIBEexternal_user;

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

SHOWINDEXINexternal_user;

+---------------+------------+----------------+--------------+----------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+
| Table | Non_unique | Key_name | Seq_in_index | Column_name | Collation | Cardinality | Sub_part | Packed | Null | Index_type | Comment | Index_comment |
+---------------+------------+----------------+--------------+----------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+
| external_user | 0 | PRIMARY | 1 | eu_local_id | A | 0 | NULL | NULL | | BTREE | | |
| external_user | 0 | eu_external_id | 1 | eu_external_id | A | 0 | NULL | NULL | | BTREE | | |
+---------------+------------+----------------+--------------+----------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+---------------+

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