[pmwiki-users] Easy .htaccess authentication setup?

[Ian Barton]

> 
> I've been playing with PmWiki a little bit.  It's pretty easy to set
> up a .htaccess file that would restrict any access to the Wiki, but
> I'm wondering if there's an easy way to set it up so it would be
> readable to anyone, but editing would require authentication.  In
> particular, we use Kerberos (or an LDAP-Kerberos gateway) for general
> authentication, and I'm wondering if it would be possible to set it up
> to use that.

If you change .htaccess to be owned and writeable by the webserver, you 
can then construct a separate page that requires authentication that can 
read and write htaccess.

However, you might want to consider if making hatccess writeable by the 
web server creates any security problems.

Ian.