Patrik Grip-Jansson wrote:
>
> Sometime ago I volunteered to fix up Bowen's authentication articles into
> a howto. However work reared its ugly head and I haven't had the time
> until today. I'm more or less done, but I'd like some more input on a
> couple of things from the articles.
>
> In one of the examples Rich has a; AuthGroupFile /dev/null. Is this
> really good practice?
I don't remember where I got that from, but it does work. If you have
users, but no groups, you don't have to create a group file.
> In a couple of places Rich talks about how mod_auth sometimes doesn't
> authenticate if the user list file is too big. Does anyone know why this
> happens? I assume that something times out while waiting for a reply from
> the module. It would be nice to include an explanation as to why this
> happens.
This one really deserves a little more research. I had this problem a
while back, and rather than actually solving the problem, I switched to
mod_auth_mysql to get around the problem. I think it would be a good
idea to try to track down why this happens, and possibly get it fixed if
it is deemed a bug. I found the the actual size of the list at which
things started crapping out was different for different machines, but I
never really investigated much farther than that.
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