Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Getting Involved?

[Paul S. <pa...@et...>]

On 13 Mar 2002, Adam Shand wrote:

:Here's now I see it.  The advantage of using something like apache for
:authentication is that there are already a myriad of authentication
:modules written (ldap, mysql, radius, htpasswd, ntlm etc etc).

Hi, my two cents on this:

1. We use mod_auth_external to authenticate users on an
   internal-only/private SSL web site for access to the Wiki.

2. Many of my users are paranoid security freaks who do not
   tolerate cookies.  Mailman, for example, generates complaints
   from the cookie-paranoid.

So I would be very happy if Phpwiki would use basic auth and let me
configure the back-end any way I please.

I would like it if there were an option to have Phpwiki assume that a
working basic auth system is present and have it assume that $REMOTE_USER
exists and is trustworthy, tie that to users' prefs, etc. automatically.

--Paul