[et-mgmt-tools] webui patch to switch to Apache digest (or basic or whatever) auth

[Michael DeHaan]

Al Tobey wrote:

Excellent!  This is the first thing on my list for investigating/merging 
next week.

> This patch removes the pass-through authentication and related forms
> in favor of using Apache's digest auth (by default).    This makes it
> trivial for people to replace the default in their Apache
> configuration with mod_auth_ldap, mod_auth_pam, or whatever.  It is
> generated against the latest git, but may apply to 0.6.2 with a little
> manual fudging.
>
> The default username/password in .htaccess is "cobbler/ILoveCobbler".
> Obviously, you will want to change this.   A default was deemed safe
> to include because the webui is disabled by default.
>
> New users can be added using the htdigest command.
> htdigest /var/www/cgi-bin/cobbler/.htaccess "Cobbler WebUI
> Authentication" $username
>
> Switching to other auth modules is left as an exercise to the user for
> now, but submissions to the wiki for various modules will be welcomed
> after 0.6.3 is released.
>
> -Al
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