-I have just deleted my password, accidentally (which is not a crisis, but it shouldn't really happen).
+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]]
-I logged in to tweak my page subscriptions, did so, and clicked 'save preferences' - unfortunately, the password boxes are cleared when you arrive at the preferences page and if you don't fill them in again then the new password (which is blank) gets saved. I'm sure I'm not the first one to notice this - I'm just writing here because I've not yet found anywhere where this inconvenience is documented.
+> 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]]
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+>> 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](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_authn_dbd.html)
+ * requires a change in ikiwiki module [[passwordauth]]
+* use an external program to read the userdb and talk with
+ [mod_auth_external](http://unixpapa.com/mod_auth_external.html)
+ * 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](http://unixpapa.com/mod_auth_external.html)
+* do it with Apache perl sections
+ * (I don't know perl)
+
+Any opinion/suggestion/solution to this is welcome and appreciated.
+
+--
+[[NicolasLimare]]
+
+For a similar use case, I've been intending to implement
+[[todo/httpauth_feature_parity_with_passwordauth]], but your idea may
+actually be the way to go. IMHO, the Perl sections idea is the
+easiest to setup, but on the long run, I'd prefer ikiwiki to optionnally
+use a userdb storage backend supported at least by Apache and lighttpd.
+--[[intrigeri]]
+
+Tons of CPAN modules may help, but most of them are specific to `mod_perl`,
+and AFAIK, ikiwiki is generally not run with `mod_perl`. It's not clear to me
+wether these modules depend on the webapp to be run with `mod_perl` set
+as the script handler, or only on `mod_perl` to be installed and loaded.
+
+* CPAN's `Apache::AuthenHook` allows to plug arbitrary Perl handlers as
+ Apache authentication providers.
+* CPAN's `Apache::Authen::Program` (`mod_perl`)
+* [http://www.openfusion.com.au/labs/mod_auth_tkt/](mod_auth_tkt) along with CPAN's
+ `Apache::AuthTkt`
+--[[intrigeri]]
+
+I've more or less managed to implement something based on `mod_perl` and
+`Apache::AuthenHook`, respectively in Debian packages `libapache2-mod-perl2`
+and `libapache-authenhook-perl`.
+
+In the Apache VirtualHost configuration, I have added the following:
+
+ PerlLoadModule Apache::AuthenHook
+ PerlModule My::IkiWikiBasicProvider
+
+ <Location /test/>
+ AuthType Basic
+ AuthName "wiki"
+ AuthBasicProvider My::IkiWikiBasicProvider
+ Require valid-user
+ ErrorDocument 401 /test/ikiwiki.cgi?do=signin
+ </Location>
+ <LocationMatch "^/test/(ikiwiki\.cgi$|.*\.css$|wikiicons/)">
+ Satisfy any
+ </LocationMatch>
+
+The perl module lies in `/etc/apache2/My/IkiWikiBasicProvider.pm`:
+
+ package My::IkiWikiBasicProvider;
+
+ use warnings;
+ use strict;
+ use Apache2::Const -compile => qw(OK DECLINED HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED);
+ use Storable;
+ use Authen::Passphrase;
+
+ sub userinfo_retrieve () {
+ my $userinfo=eval{ Storable::lock_retrieve("/var/lib/ikiwiki/test/.ikiwiki/userdb") };
+ return $userinfo;
+ }
+
+ sub handler {
+ my ($r, $user, $password) = @_;
+ my $field = "password";
+
+ if (! defined $password || ! length $password) {
+ return Apache2::Const::DECLINED;
+ }
+ my $userinfo = userinfo_retrieve();
+ if (! length $user || ! defined $userinfo ||
+ ! exists $userinfo->{$user} || ! ref $userinfo->{$user}) {
+ return Apache2::Const::DECLINED;
+ }
+ my $ret=0;
+ if (exists $userinfo->{$user}->{"crypt".$field}) {
+ error $@ if $@;
+ my $p = Authen::Passphrase->from_crypt($userinfo->{$user}->{"crypt".$field});
+ $ret=$p->match($password);
+ }
+ elsif (exists $userinfo->{$user}->{$field}) {
+ $ret=$password eq $userinfo->{$user}->{$field};
+ }
+ if ($ret) {
+ return Apache2::Const::OK;
+ }
+ return Apache2::Const::DECLINED;
+ }
+
+ 1;
+
+This setup also allows people with the master password to create their own
+account.
+
+I'm not really fluent in Perl, and all this can probably be improved (*or
+might destroy your computer as it is* and YMMV).
+
+-- [[Lunar]]