authenticating PW pages with pubcookie

[Jennifer Stock]

Greetings. I would like to restrict access to certain sections of my organization's ProcessWire site using pubcookie. We are rolling out Shibboleth authentication later this year but for now, it seems I can only make use of our institution's single sign-on routine by utilizing rules in an .htaccess file. 

I am wondering if there is a way to ask PW to apply these rules to certain pages in the site, whether via template type or location in the page tree:

AuthType UWNetID
PubcookieAppID "MyApplication"
require type staff faculty