Re: [cobalt-users] Password Protection on Two RaQs

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Chris Calabrese" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi... I have a .htaccess password protected site on my RaQ4 that is using
> the /etc/passwd file for authorization (so any user on the RaQ can access
> that area with their username and password). I have recently acquired a
> second RaQ, and I need to give users on RaQ #2 access to the password
> protected area on RaQ #1. My question is, what's the best way to do this?
>
> The only reasonable thing I can think of is to set up a "generic" user on
> RaQ #1 and give that info to the people hosted on RaQ #2. The problem
there
> is that if the people on RaQ #2 go elsewhere, they'll still have the user
> name and password to get to the password-protected area (and changing it
> every time someone leaves means the hassle of distributing the new info to
> 100+ users on RaQ #2).

One solution would be to merge the password files from each server into a
single file and store it on both servers and authenticate against it from a
PHP-based authentication manager.  You could probably automate it using a
shell script, FTP and a CRON job.

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Steve Werby
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