From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2004-05-12T11:33:17+09:00
Subject: Re: wikiwiki and authentication

On Wed, 12 May 2004 11:21:29 +0900, jm <jm@transact.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Looking a ruwiki (and others) it seems there is a great range of wikis
> to choose from, but they all seem to lack one problem. 

I couldn't resist...isn't it *good* to lack a problem? ;)

> There doesn't
> seem to be any information floating around about how to extend any of
> these to use different authentication methods. I'm intending to deploy
> a wiki at work. This seems to be a great opportunity to get ruby in by
> the side door, however, to do this it will need to be able to
> authenticate off the existing domain server. This could be done using
> either via samba or pam. Having no wish to re-invent the wheel, has
> anyone tried this in the past?
> 

The simplest way would probably be to use mod_whatever for Apache and
run the wiki through Apache.

Chad