[pmwiki-users] need help with AuthUser password syntax in config.php

[Neil Herber]

At 2006-04-05  03:47 PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud is rumored to have said:
>Ohhhh, yeah.  I'm not sure that setting $AuthId is currently
>sufficient to get the group memberships in place via authuser.php.
>I need to go back and check the code on that, and probably provide
>a better interface for setting the groups from custom $AuthIds.

Ouch! Then I think my grand plan to "collectivize" several wikis in a 
farm into a single wiki is on hold. I was hoping to use group 
membership based on Apache BA id to control access to individual 
pages and wiki groups. I suppose I could still do it with explicit 
lists of names, but that becomes a pain very quickly.

In my ideal scenario, PmWiki would be able to read and honor .htgroup files.

Perhaps an invisible kludge outside the core will do the job. Would 
it be possible to have a recipe that will take the user's Apache BA 
name and set the group? I could then just add a few lines in 
config.php after the call to authuser ...


Neil

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