[pmwiki-users] PMwiki, httpauth, safe mode

[Tom Igoe]

>
> If you're wanting user-based authorization in a safe_mode environment,
> then you'll have to get the webserver to perform the authentication
> for you and place the results in REMOTE_USER.  The httpauth.php will
> correctly grab the authenticated username from REMOTE_USER, but  
> it's up
> to the wikiadmin to configure the webserver to do the authentication
> (as PmWiki has no mechanism to retrieve HTTP usernames/passwords
> in a safe_mode environment).
>
> Hope this helps...

It does, somewhat.  I could have the server fill in remote user by  
having it force authentication for all hits.  But I don't want to do  
that.  I only want to force authentication for editing and higher  
functions, which is why I'm trying to use http authorization.  I'm  
pulling the login from a remote kerberos server.