[Pmwiki-users] Re: PmWiki development

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud
Sat Jun 12 06:27:28 CDT 2004


On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 04:18:32PM -0400, Bob Dively wrote:
> 
> This would be great. I've found it difficult to get corporate types to
> accept PmWiki because of the lack of user authentication. They have a hard
> time getting their brains around the world writable aspects of wikis and
> also have a great urge to know exactly who did what so that the guilty may
> be punished and the innocent completely ignored. I'd love to see some sort
> of user authentication scheme that allowed me to hack up a Cookbook
> extension to query a corporate LDAP server.

Oh, we can already come up with extensions to query LDAP servers--
that part is fairly simple.  Again, it's the authorization component
that makes things a challenge.  :-)



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