Skip to main content
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [List Home]
Re: [epf-dev] EPF Wiki authentifications
Hi Gunter,
It's true there no/little documentation on EPFWIKI_AUTH_BASIC. I put this in for my own purposes as I wanted something similar as you now want.

The idea of it is to reuse accounts, authentication of another existing web site that uses basic authentication to authenticate users. The current code assumes this site uses HTTP not HTTPS btw. My impression is that it is not exactly what you are looking for. Your setup is, I think, that you configured Apache to use basic authentication when accessing EPF Wiki.

Anyway, If you want to try to use EPFWIKI_AUTH_BASIC the steps are:
  1. Remove basic authentication on the EPF Wiki site
  2. Change ENV['EPFWIKI_AUTH_METHODS'] = 'validemail' to ENV['EPFWIKI_AUTH_METHODS'] = 'basic'
  3. Enable (remove #) #ENV['EPFWIKI_AUTH_BASIC'] = 'yourbasicauthsite.com,401,youremaildomain.com'  # host,fail code,domain for creating email
  4. Replace yourbasicauthsite.com with a the domain name of the site that uses basic authentication
  5. Replace youremaildomain.com with a the domain name of the email addresses of users. So for example if I login successfully with  account name 'onno' the EPF Wiki account will be created with email address onno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  6. Optionally change the HTTP response code when users fails to provide right credentials on yourbasicauthsite.com. Should always be 401 I think.
  7. Restart EPF Wiki/Apache
I have used this feature a few months, it worked for me, but it has been some time ago since I last used it. I'm willing to help you with it, if you want to try if it works for you.

The setup that I think you are thinking about, to extract the Apache user environment variable in EPF WIki and use that, is not possible without some additional coding, testing I'm afraid.

Best Regards,
Onno

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Gunter Seidel <gunter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> for a client I am using EPF for a software development method developed from
> scratch with ~1500 published elements. For the deployment I found the EPF
> wiki and were successful in setting up a demo.
>
> For the production use I need to authenticate users either by restricted
> emails (certain domain, black or while list to avoid group addresses) or to
> use the network registration to authenticate (there has been a solution
> developed to put the user name in an Apache variable already).
>
> Are there any means to do this? I found very little documentation to
> understand the EPFWIKI_AUTH_BASIC variable and basic authentication method,
> would that be a way to achieve this?
>
> Thanks!
> Rgds.
> Gunter Seidel
> _______________________________________________
> epf-dev mailing list
> epf-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/epf-dev
>

Back to the top