[pmwiki-users] slightly OT: authenticating wildcard user names

[Neil Herber]

I am running a PmWiki farm with several fields. Some of these fields are 
protected by Apache Basic Authentication (BA). I have set PmWiki to 
automatically use the BA user name as the author name for edits. Everything 
works fine.

Now I want to "plow" a new field that will be password protected, but 
allows any username to work. From what I have read, there is no way to 
"wildcard" the user name in BA. I would like to have something like "new-*" 
(where "*" is any number of characters) be a valid user name. (Apache 
password groups doesn't solve this problem.)

Can this be done? Or should I just use a PmWiki read-protect password on 
the whole field? I must confess that other concerns have prevented me from 
keeping up-to-date with the improvements to PmWiki user authorization, so 
feel free to slap my wrist and point me to a docs page that covers my request.


Neil

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