When you say Http_Auth, do you mean something like the LDAP auth?
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/26?replies=3
As well, if you have an integration with WordPress, bbPress integrates logins perfectly with WordPress.
Trent
“As well, if you have an integration with WordPress, bbPress integrates logins perfectly with WordPress.”
That said, if they are in different subdomains you will have to tweak some files (currently, anyway). But it’s two lines that need changing in total, and it’s very simple. 
If you’re planning to install WordPress, look for a WP plugin that does whatever you want and logs you in – there are way way more WP plugins than bbPress plugins.
Hi,
sorry for the late reply, but the instruction given to me were not all the clear, I apparently was looking for a solution that wasn’t the one that would work for us.
To sum up the info I have, user authentification will not rely on BBpress authentification, but on our own user table (login and password) called by a simple htaccess file.
AuthUserFile /home/login/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "Private"
AuthType Basic
<Limit GET POST>
require valid-user
</Limit>
So our users will not need to register a new account to get access to BBpress (that is intended to be private only) and they’ll just use their existing account.
We might use cookies to allow easy naviguation between BBpress, WordPress and the login page (that will contain a load of other things)
I haven’t seen any tips on wordpress forum either. Maybe my eyes were not wide open at the time ?
Can it simply be done without rewriting the whole login process ?
Sounds like you need a plugin based on $PHP_AUTH_USER to read your existing user database. I don’t think one exists yet.
I’ve hacked together a first draft of “HTTP authentication for bbPress” using the LDAP authentication plugin as a model.
This is completely untested, but the basic premise is that you set up HTTP authentication on the entire bbPress install. The plugin handles the rest. You will need to install and turn on the plugin before setting up HTTP_AUTH though.
Download from here.
OK, I just tested this, and it deffinately doesn’t work like it should, you can login using http_auth and then login again with the same user/password and it works.
I have to cut out that middle-man in the process.
Good news is you’re on the right path apparently.
If you need any help I’d be happy to contribute with some testing.
New version added which seems to work. The whole implementation is a little unsavory though – passing HTTP auth to a PHP cookie – feels like double handling.
http://www.network.net.au/bbpress/plugins/http/http-authentication.latest.zip
Someone who cared a little more about how this works would bother to replace all the cookie based auth completely.
I’ll add this to the plugin repository too.
Thanks, I’ll have a look and I’ll let you know if this works for us.
Having a double authentication is fine as long as security isn’t a concern at the end.
I’m not technician enough to get this done all by myself, I can only encourage other bright minds.
Cheers.
This is exactly what I’m after also. However, when I turn on the HTTP authentication in the Admin page I get a bunch of warnings at the top of the screen (see below), and also am unable to log off.
Warning: Missing argument 2 for bb_login() in …/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 125
and multiple of:
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at …/bb-includes/pluggable.php:125) in …/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 37
Just uploaded a new version to address this. Go get version 0.1.2 and try again.
