Hi,

I first set up Mediawiki with LdapAuthentication extension, which worked fine against my OpenLDAP server.

On another wiki I had to include file based user authentication (or "non-ldap" authentication).

The is a WebDAV dir next to the wiki, so there is Apache httpd basic auth implemented on the server. The basic auth uses ldap and as a fallback file auth and - as far as I can see for now - works.

So I switched to Auth_remoteuser instead of LdapAuthentication. This works for the ldap users. But it does not for the file users. I can see the authenticated user in Apache's access log. But if try to make any changes (which require auth) with a file user, I get the http auth dialog in the browser, cannot auth again and cannot save the wiki changes.

ldap user "bar" submit: 10.49.9.139 - bar@ofd-sth.niedersachsen.de [06/Mar/2009:11:26:05 +0100] "GET /wiki/index.php5/Diskussion:Hauptseite HTTP/1.1" 200 12005 "http://xxxs165/wiki/index.php5?title=Diskussion:Hauptseite&action=submit" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)"

file user "foo" is logged in: 10.49.9.139 - foo [06/Mar/2009:11:45:13 +0100] "GET /wiki/skins/common/images/button_sig.png HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://xxxs165/konsens_I/wiki/index.php5?title=Diskussion:Hauptseite&act..." "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)"

file user "foo" can not edit: [Fri Mar 06 11:45:18 2009] [warn] [client 10.49.9.139] [32120] auth_ldap authenticate: user foo authentication failed; URI /wiki/index.php5 [User not found][No such object], referer: http://xxxs165/wiki/index.php5?title=Diskussion:Hauptseite&action=edit

How do I get ldap and file user auth work side by side?

Marc