[Zope] Authentication with IIS

[Rob Page]

> > This question has been asked several times already, and the 
> > answer is always the same:
> > 
> > Q: How to to interface Zope with IIS
> > A: turn off challenge/response authentication and turn on basic
> > authentication for Zope to handle authentication
> > 
> > *BUT* I want IIS to handle authentication, and give Zope the 
> > user's name
> > through REMOTE_USER.
> > It seems not to be possible. Has anyone managed to do that?
> 
> I think you would need to write a user folder to do that.

I don't think this is the only way of accomplishing this (though it
might be the easiest).  I think you could write (in VC++) an IIS
"filter" which would (in a similar fashion to the Netscape Enterprise
Server plugin) 'hijack' the request and stuff the REMOTE_USER into it.

--Rob