----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Bochannek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 6:32 AM
Subject: RE: [pws] General Squeak/Swiki question.
> Does anybody have any answers to the questions below? I have now about a
> handful of people using my Swiki.
>
> Alex.
>
> --On Monday, March 24, 2003 8:51 PM -0800 Alex Bochannek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > OK, I installed the Swiki engine today and created a new Swiki. After
> > showing it to a couple of different users, the following questions came
> > up, which I wanted to share here.
> >
> > The first question that came up was how to delete a page. I explained
the
> > issue of removing links, but don't actually know how to remove a page.
You can't. Check out the overall philosophy of wiki's at c2.com. I don't
neccessarily agree with it, but there you are.
> >
> > How can a previous revision of a page be reinstated? Cut and paste to a
> > new page?
Yep.
> >
> > Finally, the issue of user authentication and access control came up. I
> > looked at the security settings, but it's not really acceptable to have
> > to maintain yet another username:password list. Ideally, I would like to
> > have a PAM interface (I am running the Swiki on Linux), but an interface
> > with the system authentication method and a Swiki-internal access
control
> > list would be fine, too.
This is a common one. What we, and other do, is to use Apache as
as reverse-proxy front end to the swiki and set whatever authentication
system you want with that. Check out the reverse-proxy directives in
the Apache configuration for details.
cheers
Mike
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