[pmwiki-users] PMwiki, httpauth, safe mode

[Tom Igoe]

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> Unfortunately, Apache doesn't play well that way -- either Apache
> authorizes everything (based on url) or it authorizes nothing,
> entirely based on the settings in .htaccess.  There's no way for a
> script such as pmwiki.php to say "I need Apache to perform  
> authorization
> for this request."

So I've learned.
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>> I'm pulling the login from a remote kerberos server.
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> Sounds like what we might want here is to update PmWiki's authuser.php
> script to allow authentication via a remote kerberos server.  :-)

or you mentioned LDAP support; how far away is that?