[HCoop-Discuss] Require explicit privileges to post to the wiki?

[Derrick Brashear]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Adam Megacz <megacz at hcoop.net> wrote:

>
> Adam Chlipala <adamc at hcoop.net> writes:
> > Integration with our Kerberos user accounts would be even better, but I
> > don't know if we could do that without changing wiki software.
>
> Yes; it can be done the same way we do for bugzilla.
>
> However, we would wind up with the same problem as bugzilla where you
> can't get read/view without authenticating -- MoinMoin doesn't have a
> separate "login" URL.


 I dealt with this for the Computing Services wiki by having 2 versions of
the URL, one which forced authentication, and one which did not. the
difference was /bin/ versus /pbin/ as a component of the URL. If you clicked
"login" on the page it used a magic rewrite to rewrite the current url to
force you through the login page; this wasn't the native login feature.


>
> The root issue here is that if you protect an URL with "basic http
> authentication" in Apache, the authentication is mandatory.  Does
> anybody know how to tell Apache to ask for authentication when
> accessing a given URL, but not to report an error if the user declines
> to authenticate?
>
>  - a
>
>
>
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Derrick
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