doc/plugins/passwordauth/discussion.mdwn



It's a bit inconvenient that one also has to type in the
Login - Confirm Password if one only wants to change
the Preferences -- Subscriptions.  --[[tschwinge]]

You don't. The password fields on the preferences fields are only needed
if you want to change your password and should otherwise be left blank.
--[[Joey]]


Aha, then the problem is Firefox, which is automatically filling the
Password field with its previous value, but not filling the
Confirm Password one.  --[[tschwinge]]


easy access to the userdb for apache auth?
My use case is:

restricted ikiwiki
read/edit only allowed from the local network (done with apache restrictions)
edit only for people authenticated (done with vanilla ikiwiki passwordauth)

I would like to allow people to read/edit the wiki from outside of the
local network, if and only if they already have an ikiwiki account.
[[httpauth]] doesn't fit since it doesn't allow anonymous local users
to create their own account. I want a single, local, simple auth
database.
My (naïve?) idea would be:

keep the [[passwordauth]] system
provide a way for Apache to use the userdb for authentication if
people want to connect from outside

I looked at the various auth modules for apache2. It seems that none
can use a "perl Storable data" file. So, I think some solutions could
be:

use a sqlite database instead of a perl Storable file

can be used with
mod_auth_dbd
requires a change in ikiwiki module [[passwordauth]]


use an external program to read the userdb and talk with
mod_auth_external

requires the maintainance of this external auth proxy over ikiwiki
userdb format changes
(I don't know perl)


include this wrapper in ikiwiki

something like ikiwiki --auth user:pass:userdb check the
user:pass pair in userdb and returns an Accept/Reject flag to
Apache
requires a change in ikiwiki core
still requires
mod_auth_external


do it with Apache perl sections

(I don't know perl)


Any opinion/suggestion/solution to this is welcome and appreciated.
--
[[NicolasLimare]]