Commit f4c939e9 authored by Amos Latteier's avatar Amos Latteier

slight doc tweak.

parent d5cdda8b
......@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ Zope authentication with existing web servers.
Zope normally performs both authentication and authorization of users.
Some web servers don't pass authentication information to CGI scripts.
If you keep getting rejected when you try to access Zope through the
web with the "super manager" user name and password, there is a good chance
that your web server is not passing authentication information to Zope.
Tricking Apache to pass authentication headers
......@@ -53,6 +56,11 @@ Zope authentication with existing web servers.
Allowing your server to handle authentication itself
Sometimes you may prefer to handle authentication outside Zope, for
example if your web server already does complex authorization, or
if it seems too difficult to convince it to pass authentication
information to Zope.
As of 1.0.9, Zope began supporting a mode that allowed the web
server to handle authentication. The 'REMOTE_USER' environment
variable is then matched to the identity of a user object in
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