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To get more techie, the pubcookie auth module does some clever things like enforce https (i.e. secure web - 'http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~colmmacc/yoyo/' should not work), it sets 'REMOTE_USER' to something useful (i.e. their redbrick username) and is generally cool. | To get more techie, the pubcookie auth module does some clever things like enforce https (i.e. secure web - 'http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~colmmacc/yoyo/' should not work), it sets 'REMOTE_USER' to something useful (i.e. their redbrick username) and is generally cool. | ||
==To use PubCookie== | |||
In order to use pubcookie authentication for parts of your own website, put the following in a .htaccess file for the directory you'd like to protect: | In order to use pubcookie authentication for parts of your own website, put the following in a .htaccess file for the directory you'd like to protect: | ||
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allow from all | allow from all | ||
==Examples== | |||
[[User:Link|Link]] has a [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~link/news/ web newsreader] | * [[Main_Page|Redbrick Wiki]], this wiki, uses this as its authenticator. | ||
* [[User:Shimoda|Shimoda]] has a script that can [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~shimoda/proxy/prox.cgi access webpages from DCU] including sites that DCU has subscriptions to. | |||
* [[User:Link|Link]] has a [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~link/news/ web newsreader] | |||