looking for .htaccess Authentication help

OK, I'm still a rails newbie and this is my third post here.

I'm trying to deploy an app on a company server and I must use a .htaccess login to control what group of people is able to login an use the app, I need the user name so I can record who makes what changes in the application. I'm going to be using the newer apache Authentication

AuthName "Restricted Area, Please enter your user name and password" AuthShadow on AuthType Basic require group rails

I have followed the http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoAuthenticateWithHTTP guide because it looked like it was going to work, but what I kinda needs is the opposite an I'm not sure where to look, any Suggestions / Comments are Very welcome.

Apache is using AuthShadow, and thats more of where I need things to lean to.