Re: [cgiwrap-users] Authentication without .htaccess

[Nathan N. <nn...@um...>]

> > Without the central DB, your best bet would probably be to front-end the
> > twiki scripts with a cgi (that doesn't read it's STDIN) that uses
> > cookies for authentication. Or find a cookie-auth plugin for twiki if
> > something like that exists.
> 
> Yes, and that's what I'm really looking for. I just haven't been able to
> find either. There's a plugin for TWiki that enables the use of cookies
> for sessions but it doesn't affect the authentication in any way. Most
> authentication cgi scripts use .htaccess and those which don't, usually
> are more complex than what I need.
> 
> If anyone knows of a script that could serve as a "front-end" for the
> TWiki scripts, please let me know. I'm kind of in a hurry here, the
> site's supposed go public in a couple of days...
> 

I'm not aware of anything pre-written, but it looks like it wouldn't
be too difficult to write a small front-end script to do it.

Do you have your twiki install in htdocs/ and running the stuff in the 
bin/ dir via cgiwrap? So you can take care of the .htaccess stuff for
all of the files other than the scripts?

-- Nathan

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