[Phpwiki-talk] auth prefs

[Joby W. <joby@u.washington.edu>]

Reini,

Since you seem to be heading up the modifications to the user 
authentication system, I thought I would run by you two more options I 
would like to add.

1) a new login method (currently PUBCOOKIE_LOGIN): this will allow end 
user to use the University of Washington's Pubcookie system.  When using 
Pubcookie the end user accesses a web site he is forced to authenticate 
at a central site, and the central login site then guarantees the 
authentication to the web site.  Thus the end user's password is never 
available to the web site, and allowing a unified login structure for an 
organization.  The only check is that $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['REMOTE_USER'] 
is guaranteed to be set and correct.

2) no admin account (ADMIN_GROUP): this would grant to specific users 
WIKIAUTH_ADMIN privilages.  With this enabled there is no admin account, 
but certain users have administrative privilages.  With this 
modifications can be tracked by user.

jbw