Re: [cobalt-users] .htpasswd in admserv

[Patrick Barmentlo <pbarmentlo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 MistaAviB@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi, I have a question.
> 
> I noticed cobalts /siteadmin and admin gui use .htaccess file like:
> 
> require group site1 root admin
> AuthName CobaltRaQ
> AuthType Basic
> 
> And it works. It uses the system group and passwd file. I was amazed at this cause i've been trying to write a program to authenticate a user and check a group.I tried this on a linux box, but it does not work.
> 
> I found out that redhat (what cobalt is built on i beleive) does not use the /etc/passwd and /etc/group by dfeault when no others are listed, so i copied the file from /etc/pam.d and /etc/security.
> 
> My .htaccess file on my linux box looks like
> 
> require group site1 root admin
> AuthName CobaltRaQ
> AuthType Basic
> AuthPAM_Enabled off
> 
> It authenticates the user fine with /etc/passwd (i can tell by the apache log file and if i do a require a certain user, it works), but it can't authenticate groups.
> The reason is because /etc/group uses commas (,) to seperate users while apache needs spaces... hmph... does anyone know how i can setup it up so it can use commans like cobalt's does?
> 
> thanks in advance
> 
> Avi.

AFAIK this is because mod_auth_pam module for apache.
pls see the docs of mod_auth_pam

grtz



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