Re: [cobalt-developers] Apache authentication

[Ryan Verner <xfesty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 26/01/2004, at 10:12 AM, Ian McCall wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I've converted a Raq4 over to Debian stable, and I'm trying to get it 
> up to the functionality I had with straight Cobalt. Almost there, just 
> two features left: WebDAV and Majordomo. Majordomo is a subject for 
> another question, so at the moment I'm going to concentrate on WebDAV.

Debian Stable is fun.  Are these recent versions of WebDAV, Majordomo, 
and Apache, or the frozen-woody versions that may have little/crappy/no 
support for these technologies?

> I've got WebDAV (Apache 1.3.x, mod_dav) going using AuthType Digest, 
> but the configuration uses .htaccess files which I'm sure weren't 
> needed in Cobalt's version. There's also the AuthDB stuff which sounds 
> more familiar, but it still all looks a bit manual to me.
>
> Question is then, are people aware of any means of either getting 
> Apache to authenticate directly off /etc/passwd? The trouble with 
> doing it manually is a) I have to do it myself and can't automate it 
> on site creation and b) I can't guarantee that the passwords are going 
> to be the same between /etc/passwd and .htaccess.

Hmm, I played with this a while ago; I think there's a mod_pam or 
something similar.  My brain's all fuzzy at the moment, I'll research 
it later today on the machine at work I was playing with it on.

> Any clues?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ian
>
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