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@@ -20,3 +20,15 @@ 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
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+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]]
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+> 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]]
+
+>> Ah, ok, I misunderstood your comment. I'll see what I can figure out. --[[schmonz]]