biblioteca/mediagoblin/plugins/persona

.. _persona-chapter:

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persona plugin
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The persona plugin allows users to login to you GNU MediaGoblin instance using
`Mozilla Persona`_.

This plugin can be enabled alongside :ref:`openid-chapter` and
:ref:`basic_auth-chapter`.

.. note::
When :ref:`basic_auth-chapter` is enabled alongside this persona plugin, and
a user creates an account using their persona. If they would like to add a
password to their account, they can use the forgot password feature to do
so.

.. _Mozilla Persona: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/

Set up the persona plugin
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1. Install the ``requests`` package.

2. Add the following to your MediaGoblin .ini file in the ``[plugins]`` section::

[[mediagoblin.plugins.persona]]

3. Run::

gmg dbupdate

in order to create and apply migrations to any database tables that the
plugin requires.

4. Run::

gmg assetlink

in order to persona's static assets.