X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/2c1e02aa4574f6c264aee6e498da4d0ed6b2ed4b..5e85039dc3a329a064a0d3053bbca2ed066f5292:/doc/plugins/contrib/unixauth/discussion.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/unixauth/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/unixauth/discussion.mdwn index 91c59ff1d..c4f5ff269 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/contrib/unixauth/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/unixauth/discussion.mdwn @@ -20,3 +20,13 @@ Thanks for the comments. That's definitely an undesirable interaction between pw -- [[schmonz]] > Have you considered using [[plugins/httpauth]] and then the appropriate apache module? There are apache modules like [mod_authnz_external](http://unixpapa.com/mod_auth_external.html) that might help. The advantage of these solutions is that they usually make the security implications explicit. -- Will + +Actually, yes. That's how I made sure I had pwauth working to begin with. I'm partial to the form-based approach because I'm not aware of any way to reliably "log out" browsers from HTTP authentication. If that *is* reliably possible, then I worked way too hard for no reason. ;-) +-- [[schmonz]] + +I've added support for [checkpassword](http://cr.yp.to/checkpwd/interface.html), since those generally don't have any rate-limiting cleverness to interfere with ikiwiki's, and made a few other changes. Please check out the plugin docs again and let me know if this is closer to being acceptable. +-- [[schmonz]] + +> I actually think that the rate limiting is a good thing. After all, +> ikiwiki doesn't do its own login rate limiting. Just need to find a way +> to disentangle the two locks. --[[Joey]]