From: Austin Ziegler <Austin.Ziegler@...>
Date: 2004-05-12T22:33:40+09:00
Subject: Re: wikiwiki  and authentication

> 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. 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?

At this point, Ruwiki supports no authentication mechanism at all. This
will change, and I hope to make it so that authentication plugins can be
written for this purpose. If you run ruwiki as a CGI under IIS (I think
it will work), then you can take advantage of the login that way; it's
merely a matter of protecting the CGI appropriately under IIS.

-austin
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