[pmwiki-users] useraccess.php cookbook module (new)

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:59:33AM +0100, Nick Thompson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Fancy a laugh at my PHP scripting skills and my nearly one week old 
> experience with pmwiki? Please find attached a cookbook recipe for 
> helping with an apache authenticated, pmwiki authorized user scheme.
> 
> Details in the header, but a quick description: For sites where ALL 
> users are authenticated (via apache auth modules say), this module 
> uses the user name to key into a permissions file, giving users 
> specific permissions to none, admin, read, edit or attr a page. In 
> this version page attribute passwords are also checked, so individual 
> pages may still be locked down.

Totally out of curiosity, how does this differ from the httpauth.php
module that is distributed with PmWiki?

Pm