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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 20:15:11 -0500
From: Ganeshram Iyer <ganeshramiyer@sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Apache and passwd

Thanks Joshua,
I had read that it is a bad idea. But it is for an intranet site over 
SSL and with a number of users and computers having different passwords 
for different services increases my work of trying to get them all to 
age and still be consistent. Thanks for your advice and the links. I 
shall look into it.
Much appreciate
Ganesh

Joshua Slive wrote:

>On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:53:39 -0500, Ganeshram Iyer
><ganeshramiyer@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello all,
>>I am a new Linux user/administrator with Whitebox Linux and Apache 2.0.
>>I was wondering if there was a way to setup Apache to require
>>authentication to a directory over the internet but using Linux's passwd
>>file? The setup is similar to IIS "Integrated Windows Authentication".
>>Is it possible though with maybe point the AuthUserFile directive to
>>point to the 'passwd' file? Would it work? I am trying to maintain a
>>single password system based on the passwd file so that users would not
>>have to remember too many passwords.
>>    
>>
>
>See:
>http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html#passwdauth
>for why that is a very bad idea.
>
>If you still want to do it, there are several modules on
>http://modules.apache.org/ that can do the job.
>
>Joshua.
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