[Zope] Configuring ZOPE to use Apache users

[Gunther H.Weber]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to configure ZOPE to accept users authenticated by an 
Apache web server. (Mainly because I need to use a homebrew 
authentication service for which an Apache module is provided and 
maintained.) So far I have set up Apache (2.0.46) to access ZOPE 
(2.6.0) via FastCGI (as I couldn't get PCGI to run). The documentation 
in doc/WEBSERVER.txt explains how to set up Apache authentication via 
PCGI, but doesn't mention FastCGI in that paragraph. Is it at all 
possible to set up ZOPE to use remote users FastCGI? How would one do 
this. One of my problems is that the original server was set up by 
someone else and I need to make changes to the existing configuration. 
One problem may be that I did not find a file "access" in ZOPE's "var" 
directory. Naively I tried to create one containing just the name of a 
valid username on the Apache server folowed by a colon, in hope that 
Zope would use that. Still, I get two authentication requests, one by 
Apache and one by ZOPE. Where, except in the "var" directory could the 
"access" file reside? Any other ideas on what I am doing wrong?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Gunther Weber