Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Getting Involved?

[Eric C. <er...@ec...>]

Hi Steve!

I absolutely understand. Perhaps I could work with them. The specific
ideas I have right now is similar to the suggestions made at 
the URL: http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/UserAuthenticationDoneForYou

I was thinking that if we could setup a authentication API that
could be plugged into either http authentication using apache's
auth systems (like UserAuthType Basic) - or - setup proprietary
authentication systems (like a username/password in a MySQL db)
then wiki would not need to handle all the "innards" of authentication
but rather simply pull the username and password from however 
it's configured to use authentication.

Does that make sense?

Also, we could have a default user authentication system - if none is
present but people want an authentication system. Most likely a simple 
plain text file with encrypted passwords. (Using md5)

Just some thoughts - I noticed that phpwiki 1.3.2 would recognize 
an admin logged in via http basic auth (use of the $PHP_AUTH_USER 
I suppose) but with phpwiki 1.3.3 that has been eliminated. :-(

Eric

At Wednesday, 13 March 2002, Steve Wainstead <sw...@pa...> wrote:

>Hi Eric!
>
>I know someone on the project was supposed to be working on user 
auth, and
>promised to deliver something right about now. I haven't heard anything
>though; I will have to search the mail archive.
>
>More than likely you would be welcome to work on this, but I need 
to make
>sure someone else isnt' already doing it. Do you have any specific 
ideas
>right now for auth?
>
>~swain
>
>On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Eric Carter wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been hacking around with PhpWiki a bit over the past month
>> and I have to say - this is an awesome project. I have some thoughts
>> and ideas and I'd like to get involved.
>>
>> I'm particularly interested in setting up a seperate User Authentication
>>
>> interface. I've been using simple http basic authentication - and
>> I'd like to know where things are going with the project.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eric
>>
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