[Moin-user] moin, central users, and REMOTE_USER

[seph]

I'm looking at using moin at my office, where I have a centralized
user environment. Currently my users authenticate to apache, which
sets REMOTE_USER for the various webapps. I'd like to integrate moin
cleanly into this.

In an ideal world, moin would trust the REMOTE_USER setting, and use
it as the username. Users would never see a name or password
field. And moin could even assume their email is REMOTE_USER at domain. 

However, I'm finding this isn't nearly supported, and I'm not sure how
hard it'd be to get there. The only REMOTE_USER related setting I've
found is auth_http_enabled, and I'm not sure that does much of what I
want. I think I may need to patch userform.py, though there's also a
reasonable looking post at: (look for REMOTE_USER)

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=624&max_rows=25&style=nested&viewmonth=200208

Has anyone implemented this functionality, and is there any chance it
will show up in moin? Or is this pretty much something people patch
and maintain on their own?

seph