NAME Apache::AuthenPasswd - mod_perl passwd Authentication module SYNOPSIS # This is the standard authentication stuff AuthName "Foo Bar Authentication" AuthType Basic PerlAuthenHandler Apache::AuthenPasswd # Standard require stuff, /etc/passwd users or /etc/group groups, and # "valid-user" all work OK require user username1 username2 ... require group groupname1 groupname2 ... # [Need Apache::AuthzPasswd] require valid-user # The following is actually only needed when authorizing # against /etc/group. This is a separate module. PerlAuthzHandler Apache::AuthzPasswd These directives can also be used in the directive or in an .htaccess file. DESCRIPTION This perl module is designed to work with mod_perl and the Net::NIS module by Rik Haris (rik.harris@fulcrum.com.au). It is a direct adaptation (i.e. I modified the code) of Michael Parker's (parker@austx.tandem.com) Apache::AuthenSmb module. The module uses getpwnam to retrieve the passwd entry from the /etc/passwd file, using the supplied username as the search key. It then uses crypt() to verify that the supplied password matches the retrieved hashed password. Apache::AuthenPasswdApache::AuthzPasswd I've taken "authentication" to be meaningful only in terms of a user and password combination, not group membership. This means that you can use Apache::AuthenPasswd with the require user and require valid-user directives. In the /etc/passwd and /etc/group context I consider require group to be an "authorization" concern. I.e., group authorization consists of establishing whether the already authenticated user is a member of one of the indicated groups in the require group directive. This process may be handled by Apache::AuthzPasswd. Admittedly, AuthzPasswd is a misnomer, but I wanted to keep AuthenPasswd and AuthzPasswd related, if only by name. I welcome any feedback on this module, esp. code improvements, given that it was written hastily, to say the least. AUTHOR Demetrios E. Paneras COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 1998 Demetrios E. Paneras, MIT Media Laboratory. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.