On 1/31/08, Kenneth Porter shiva@sewingwitch.com wrote:

It sounds like I just need to run an htpasswd setup and have them log in twice, once to Apache and once to MediaWiki.

The basic auth extension works so easily and is very transparent. Minus the changing passwords and what not part of things. I use it without much editing at all. Definately worth it if you already have your user base credentials inside apache in one way or another.