>>> On 2/13/2006 at 8:39:41 am, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:26:39AM -0700, Brad Nicholes wrote: >> Yes, we do need to make this change. With the provider based >> rearchitecting of authentication in httpd 2.2, this left authorization >> in an unpredictable state especially when using multiple authorization >> types. You were never quite sure which one was going to happen first >> and had no way to order them or control them. With that, there was
>> also a growing demand to be able to apply AND/OR logic to the way in >> which authorization is applied. So basically this change brings >> authorization up to the same level of power and flexibility that >> currently exists in httpd 2.2 for authentication. Hence being new >> functionality, there are bound to be bugs that need to be fixed, >> especially with backwards compatibility. So let's get the bugs >> identified and fixed. > > Could you have a look at making the test suite pass again, to that end? > > I tried to port mod_authany (c-modules/authany/mod_authany.c) to the > trunk authz API, but to no avail. The tests which fail are: > > t/http11/basicauth..........# Failed test 2 in t/http11/basicauth.t at > line 24 > FAILED test 2 > Failed 1/3 tests, 66.67% okay > t/security/CVE-2004-0811....# Failed test 1 in > t/security/CVE-2004-0811.t at line 14 > # Failed test 2 in t/security/CVE-2004-0811.t at line 14 fail #2 > # Failed test 3 in t/security/CVE-2004-0811.t at line 14 fail #3 > # Failed test 4 in t/security/CVE-2004-0811.t at line 14 fail #4 > FAILED tests 1-4 > > joe The other problem that I see in the configuration is that the <Location /authany> defines an authtype and authname but no authentication provider. This means that the authentication provider will default to 'file'. But since there hasn't been a password file specified either, the result is an AUTH_GENERAL_ERROR. This scenario would occur with either 2.2 or trunk. Brad
