[pmwiki-users] how can I authorize many users with the same password?

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:02:01AM -0400, Neil Herber wrote:
> I am using Apache Basic Authentication to control access to a PmWiki site. 
> Each user has their own user name and password.
> 
> I want to change this so that *any* user name is valid, as long as it is 
> used with a correct  (shared) password. There will be only *one* shared 
> password. In effect I want to have wildcard acceptance of the user name.
> 
> I do not just want to have a password without a username, because I have 
> set PmWiki to use the  authenticated name as the Author.
> 
> Can I do this?

....well, are you asking if there's a way to do this for Apache
Basic Authentication in general, or just for the PmWiki-portions
of the site?  Does the access control need to protect more than
just PmWiki?

Pm