Received: by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) id HAA20060; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 07:24:36 -0800 Received: from gate.ukweb.com by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id HAA20055; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 07:24:33 -0800 Received: from star(really [192.168.2.10]) by gate.ukweb.com via rsmtp with smtp id for ; Tue, 27 Feb 96 15:22:54 +0000 (GMT) (/\##/\ Smail3.1.30.13 #30.13 built 31-aug-95) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 15:22:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Mark J Cox X-Sender: mark@star To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com Subject: Re: New module (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199602271434.GAA15426@taz.hyperreal.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-new-httpd@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com > > I've created a new module that I'd like to contribute. It's a module > > that uses the UNIX password file for authentication. I need this You can actually already do this (sort of). I submitted a patch last April that caused the .htpasswd file to ignore anything after a ":" after the password. Someone submitted something similar again last month. Then you just point "AuthFilename /etc/passwd" and it works. I don't think its a good thing to document, it's not something we want everyone doing: finding out that their favourite account with password "aardvark" has been compromised because someone sent the dictionary with keep-alive's to their Web server. > > Rob Nielsen rob_nielsen@adc.com > > ADC Telecommunications, Inc. > > http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/alumni/rob_nielsen > > 4900 West 78th Street, MS10 (612) 896-2706 > > Minneapolis, MN 55345 (612) 896-2959 - fax > > > > > Mark Mark Cox, Technical Director, UK Web ------ http://www.ukweb.com/~mark/ Commercial Support for the Apache Web Server, see http://www.ukweb.com/