[dokuwiki] Re: Securing a folder outside dokuwiki with dokuwiki auth
- From: Sander Tekelenburg <tekelenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 20:15:31 +0200
At 09:15 +0200 UTC, on 2009-05-07, Andreas Benzler wrote:
> [...] I have read about a possibility to
> use basic authentification and point the point to the users.auth.php
> file. [...] Can someone please
> confirm that the above scenario does work and is secure?
Depends on your definition of "secure". "basic auth" uses cleartext. There's
a variant, "digest auth", that makes the login credentials harder to
intercept.
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