[pmwiki-users] HTTP Authentication and use of login name

[christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com]

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Neil Herber wrote:

> At 2006-06-07  09:33 AM -0700, Hartl, Bob is rumored to have said:
>> Is there a way to use http authentication with groups as I suggest?
>
> I do this on several wikis in a farm. I don't think I have anything
> special, but the relevant items are:
>
> 1) Use Apache BA for access. Groups are defined in Apache, but
> ignored in this case.
>
>
> 2) In farmconfig.php:
> ## This will set the author field on all requests authenticated by
> the webserver.
> ## It will even override anything the author happens to put in the "Author"
> ## box on the edit form.
> if (@$_SERVER['REMOTE_USER']) $Author = $_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'];

How could I get the name from Apache BA as the default user name, only 
when no user name is known? (Alternatively, set it as the default the 
first time)

/Christian

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