Thread:Project:Support desk/Apache http auth and PBKDF2

It appears that in (one of) the latest version(s) of the MediaWiki installation a change in the password style has been implemented.

Is there somewhere some kind of documentation that would help to get some insights in the difficulties that would be created once somehting like http_auth (apache extension) is being used and on how to solve these issues?

The idea is to create a wiki that requires authentification even before the main page of the site can be seen.