Relatively trivial edit, but allows the "remote" auth type to have the same functionality of looking up user access levels from database that the 'http-auth' one does. Useful if you want to have a couple of admin users, but let everyone else in as a global reader only. 

-- Nathan

diff --git a/html/includes/authentication/remote.inc.php b/html/includes/authentication/remote.inc.php
index 55f9a332..85a2e690 100644
--- a/html/includes/authentication/remote.inc.php
+++ b/html/includes/authentication/remote.inc.php
@@ -136,6 +136,12 @@ function remote_auth_user_level($username)
 {
     global $config;
 
+    //Attempt to look user up in DB, if something found, then return it
+    $tmp_level = dbFetchCell("SELECT `level` FROM `users` WHERE `username` = ? AND `type` = ?", [$username, 'mysql']);
+    if ( $tmp_level ) {
+        return $tmp_level;
+    }
+
     return isset($config['auth_remote_userlevel']) ? $config['auth_remote_userlevel'] : 1;
 }

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