[pmwiki-users] user authentication sharing with apache

Seth Cherney sethcherney at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 7 02:01:04 CDT 2007


Looks like that will work.  I will post to that page if I need to do things differently.  Thanks,
seth
--- "Neil Herber (nospam)" <nospam at eton.ca> wrote:

> Seth Cherney wrote:
> > I have a site with many pages, so the browse and search is all being done through a java
> program,
> > which indexes the output from staticpages.  I want to simply use apache to login users to a
> global
> > directory so that the search, wiki and links to static pages are all protected with one login.
> 
> > thus, to control view and edit, other than admin/user, everything will go through mod_rewrite.
> 
> > nevertheless, I want the wiki to pick up the apache user and log that as the author on editing
> of
> > pages, so that I can block malicious editors and genreally keep a tab on things.  if someone
> could
> > point me in the right direction.  thanks, seth
> 
> 
> To see the way that I did this, go to:
> 
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/AuthUser
> 
> And look near the bottom for the headline:
> Using AuthUser with Apache Basic Authentication (BA)
> 
> -- 
> Neil Herber
> Corporate info at http://www.eton.ca/
> 



       
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