I have an application relying on basic authentication, using
mod_auth_dbm.c - ie. AuthDBMUserFile and AuthDBMGroupFile.
Due to a large userbase, I want to do external authentication of the user's
passwords, once per session (in a secure way using SSL). The cookie-based
authentication perl module @ www.modperl.com looks useful for that.
The condition for sucessful authentication is that the users password must
be valid (to be given a cookie to begin with), authorization they must be in
a particular AuthDBMGroup specified in each .htaccess file.
I don't want to get too far out of my depth, i'm open to suggestions on how
to attack this goal.
Cheers, Daniel
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Daniel Piczak, Network/Systems Officer
The University of Western Australia Library
Email: daniel at library.uwa.edu.au Phone: 9380 1746 Fax: 9380 1012
