[pmwiki-users] Authentication confusion

Kathryn Andersen kat_lists at katspace.homelinux.org
Fri Jun 9 18:18:20 CDT 2006


On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 12:18:49PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> Since Apache is the only thing that understands mod_auth_pam,
> for this scenario authentication will have to occur within Apache.  
> (PmWiki doesn't know how to talk to PAM.) 
<snip>
> With Apache authentication it seems to be an all-or-nothing 
> proposition, if authentication is enabled then every access to
> a resource must provide authentication credentials, otherwise
> authentication isn't available period.  I've also tried various
> combinations of mod_auth_anon, but not with any useful success.

Ah.  Thanks.  So it's only useful if one has had to already provide
authentication before one accesses the Wiki.  Good to have that cleared
up, even though it means I won't be able to use PAM.  (The mod_pam PHP
module apparently only works with Apache 1.3)

Kathryn Andersen
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