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@@ -9,3 +9,7 @@ I could use htaccess for that, but it would force the users to have 2 authentica
 Then, I'd have to generate the private page the regular way with ikiwiki, and prevent apache from serving them with an appropriate and much more maintainable htaccess file.
 
 -- [[users/emptty]]
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+> While I'm sure a plugin could do this, it adds so much scalability cost
+> and is so counter to ikiwiki's design.. Have you considered using the
+> [[plugins/httpauth]] plugin to unify around htaccess auth? --[[Joey]]