[Zope] Configuring ZOPE to use Apache users

[Dieter Maurer]

Gunther H.Weber wrote at 2004-7-20 08:25 -0700:
> ...
>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.

You must find some way to let Apache pass a "REMOTE_USER" HTTP
header to Zope.

I do not know whether there is such a way and how it would work.
Check the Apache documentation.
I have seen an environment modifier in the "mod_rewrite" documentation
but I fear, it will not make HTTP headers.

-- 
Dieter