[pmwiki-users] UserAuth vs. AuthUser
Patrick R. Michaud
pmichaud at pobox.com
Thu Jun 30 09:08:23 CDT 2005
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 06:36:17PM -0500, Jeremy Sproat wrote:
> It appears that AuthUser is officially part of the PmWiki distribution
> now. It also appears to be in early development. Does AuthUser
> represent the official authentication scheme for PmWiki?
Yes.
> Are there any plans to offer per-group security in AuthUser like
> UserAuth provides? For example, in UserAuth I can specify that user
> Bob is the only one (besides Admin) who can view, edit, upload, etc.
> to the TopSecret group, but anyone can do anything with the WideOpen
> group.
In AuthUser, you do this by specifying "id:Bob" for the
view/edit/upload passwords in TopSecret.GroupAttributes .
> Another question: if AuthUser is the official authentication
> framework, does this mean that there are no plans to extend and/or
> support UserAuth?
I guess that depends on the authors/users of the UserAuth recipe.
I don't have any plans to extend/support UserAuth directly.
> Lastly, is AuthUser the framework which will allow LDAP-based authentication?
It will be, yes. I just need to review my LDAP authentication standards
(especially the url specification) -- it's been 4-5 years since I've
dealt with that.
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