Re: PerlAuthenHandler advice needed.

[Carlos Ramirez]

You can you use Location to specify seperate AuthUserFile's like so:

<Location /companyA>
AuthType Basic
AuthName CompanyA
AuthUserFile path/to/CompanyAUsersFile

</Location>
....
<Location /companyN>
AuthType Basic
AuthName CompanyN
AuthUserFile path/to/CompanyNUsersFIle
</Location>
 

Or you can write your own AuthHandler that lookups up AuthName, AuthUserFile in a seperate file against the path_info. This will eliminate the need to flood you httpd.conf file with a bunch of <Location></Location> directives.
 
 
 
 
 

Todd Chapman wrote:

I have read chapter 6 of the modperl book but still don't know how to set
up authenification the way I want. I would like to use Basic
authentification to protect virtual documents. The trick is that I want
to set AuthName and AuthUserFile based on path_info.

For example:

http://virtual/companyA/dir1

would prompt for a password in the companyA realm and check it against the
appropriate AuthUserFile.

How do I add this flexibility without reinventing the parts Apache already
does so well?

Thanks.

-Todd

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