[[!template id=plugin name=httpauth author="Alec Berryman"]]
[[!tag type/auth]]

This plugin allows HTTP basic authentication to be used to log into the
wiki. To use the plugin, your web server should be set up to perform HTTP
basic authentiation for at least the directory containing `ikiwiki.cgi`. 
The authenticated user will be automatically signed into the wiki.

This plugin is included in ikiwiki, but is not enabled by default.
