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By: dwc

dwc — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:24:24 +0000

Andrisi,

Off the top of my head, I don’t think that’s supported. For my sites the users are almost always logging into the WordPress administration section first.

However, I’d be happy to take a patch to add support for that. You could probably use an early plugin hook to support auto-login. The patch should make this behavior optional, as with the auto-create option added previously.

By: Andrisi

Andrisi — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:49:59 +0000

Does it support auto login. So the users don’t have to click login at all. I don’t see how to implement this in WP. Any suggestions? Thanks!

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 21:36:42 +0000

Awesome work, thanks a lot. This was a huge help with something I was trying to get done.

By: Senpai

Senpai — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:00:38 +0000

I successfully used your plugin to integrate a Wordpress 2.2 installation with Active Directory, thanks!

By: dwc

dwc — Mon, 14 May 2007 19:49:06 +0000

Steve,

Could you check your server logs for hits to the CSS file? The status code might be helpful in debugging the problem.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 13 May 2007 12:58:50 +0000

I’m a first time wp; have the plugin in working but for some reason it seems to block the css file from loading so my site is looking very retro at the moment - any ideas?

By: dwc

dwc — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 03:38:13 +0000

Martin,

The plugin assumes you have an existing mechanism for managing users. For example, you could use mod_auth_ldap against an existing LDAP directory.

The plugin is actually very simple - it just looks for a username provided by Apache and passes it into the WordPress authentication code.

By: Martin Cleaver

Martin Cleaver — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:30:14 +0000

Thanks…

Does this http-authentication WordPress plugin provide a mechanism for a user to register or change the password or is that done elsewhere?

Thanks. M.

By: dwc

dwc — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:40:39 +0000

Martin,

I’m not familiar with TWiki’s user system, but WordPress would most likely work in this situation. For example, if TWiki can use Apache’s mod_auth_digest, then you could use the http-authentication WordPress plugin to use the same user database.

Try downloading version 1.1 and looking at the readme.txt. At the very least, you’ll need to install the plugin, add your users to WordPress, and then set up your .htaccess file.

Let me know if you have any questions.