[horde] Transparent authentication

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Fathi Ben Nasr <fathi.engineer at gnet.tn>:

>     I have horde set up in a protected area of my web server and wanted
> horde and imp to use the credentials of the autheticated user
> ($REMOTE_USER, $PHP_AUTH_PW) to authenticate him transparently and give
> him access to the horde apps.
> I know this will probably disable the logout feature as the user get
> logged in again, but this is not a problem here.
> How can I achieve this ?

You can write an Auth_http driver that checks for $PHP_AUTH_PW, etc., and
sets up Horde auth that way. Use Auth_ipbasic as an example for transparent
authentication.

-chuck

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