Simo <[email protected]> writes: > On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 19:08 -0600, Nick Daly wrote: >> Time to do a lot of LDAP (or Kerberos, or...) learning. > > Do yourself a favor, nix their auth system and use apache modules, > mediawiki has a module to understand REMOTE_USER, so should other > services like that. Once you find one that understand REMOTE_USER you > can defer authentication compeltely to apache and not have to > learn/implement/tweak each single service in a different way.
Could you clarify or point to an example of where this is used well? There're lots of results, but there's also a lot of chaff in those results. Seems like ikiwiki's httpauth [0] respects REMOTE_USER, which seems ideal for the wiki service. Now as long as everything else does the same... Nick 0: http://ikiwiki.info/plugins/httpauth/
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