On 07/05/2016 03:19 PM, Mario Brandt wrote: > On 5 July 2016 at 20:42, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > >> >> Unfortunately, dbmmanage isn't available to the majority of our users, >> due to decisions made at the packaging/distro level. (See my comment >> earlier. See also >> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/e1aaf09a66c2ecbbbfd8da818aa243d06a260993fda2344f81c2adb7@%3Cdev.httpd.apache.org%3E >> ) >> >> So I'm still left with questions as to how to create these DBM group >> files, in the absence of dbmmanage. > > That should be done by the distro maintainer. > However, since it is a DB2 file it shoud be possible to edit that file > with other tools.
What are these other tools? > >> The docs talk about two different ways you can handle these files. One >> is to put a list of groups in the user database, in the comment field. >> That's all well and good, but it does mean that you must know the >> password of the user before you can edit their group list, which seems >> suboptimal. > > I found a tutorial page for it. > http://howtolamp.com/lamp/httpd/2.4/securing/auth-basic-dbm/ > Thanks. This looks like a good starting place. -- Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: docs-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: docs-h...@httpd.apache.org
