[pmwiki-users] user authentication sharing with apache

[Neil Herber (nospam)]

Seth Cherney wrote:
> I have a site with many pages, so the browse and search is all being done through a java program,
> which indexes the output from staticpages.  I want to simply use apache to login users to a global
> directory so that the search, wiki and links to static pages are all protected with one login. 
> thus, to control view and edit, other than admin/user, everything will go through mod_rewrite. 
> nevertheless, I want the wiki to pick up the apache user and log that as the author on editing of
> pages, so that I can block malicious editors and genreally keep a tab on things.  if someone could
> point me in the right direction.  thanks, seth


To see the way that I did this, go to:

http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/AuthUser

And look near the bottom for the headline:
Using AuthUser with Apache Basic Authentication (BA)

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