On 17 Jul 2013, at 4:44 PM, Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com> wrote:

> All of the client-cert-as-basic-auth-substitute mechanisms we have
> require you to check the dummy password with a "real"
> authbasicprovider.
> 
> Now that we have the expression parser and AuthBasicFake, would anyone
> be interested in a AuthBasicProvider that accepted any user with a
> valid client certificate?  Anyone with big concerns?
> 
> I know there are some other efforts/interest in this area that predate
> the expression parser and AuthBasicFake -- so those had to be more
> complex.
> 
> I think I need this to deprecate a proprietary module, and I don't
> want to replace it with a proprietary (albeit simple)
> AuthBasicProvider.

+1.

I would add this to mod_ssl though, rather than trying to make something like 
mod_auth_basic aware of this.

Regards,
Graham
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