Basic Authentication

[martinG]

Hello,

I'm running a site which uses Basic authentication to reach some internal pages.
The usernames and passwords are since long time distributed to all users.

Now I'm rebuilding the internal part of the site to be using the CMSMS. But I want to keep the Basic auth for login. After the user has logged in, he is presented the new CMS.

Now the problem, I want to implement an Internal Forum within the CMS.
But I don't want the users having to login once more (by using FrontEndUsers).

Is it possible to use a Forum within the CMSMS but to use the already logged in userid:s?

/ MartinG

[Nullig]

Why not use CMSMS Frontendusers as the main login? Then you could use it for both.

Do you store your original usernames and passwords in a db? Depending on how you create/store the pwd data, you may be able to copy the db info into CMSMS using phpMyAdmin, or another similar db utility.

Nullig

[martinG]

I realize that that's one option. But I don't want the CMS to be visible to the outside world.
The server is using basic authentication with an auth user file.

[Nullig]

I don't think you're going to be able to do this without a double login.

Nullig

[tyman00]

Why not just make your landing page a basic HTML page that has only the FEU login. That would reduce the need for double login. It wouldn't be any less secure than the basic authentication, plus a nicely styled Form would look a lot better than the pop-up authentication window.

[martinG]

Yes, I see what you mean. Just wanted to know if it is possible in some simple way.

Thanks for replying / MartinG

[Jeff]

As long as the Basic Authentication (ie .htaccess) is on/in the directory that CMSMS is installed in then you won't be able to access any pages until you are logged in and you don't need FEU.

Jeff

[martinG]

I was just thinking if the Authorization header from the client could be used to extract the user name to the front end user module.

Thank you all for the replies and this is a great moment to stop picking your nose. Hope you all will be allright.

/ MartinG