Problems with your suggestion:
1. The realm will not be known until I get path_info so
<Location></Location> directives will not work.
2. How can I get Perl to do the password lookup in the dynamically
selected AuthUserFile?
Thanks for the help.
-Todd
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Carlos Ramirez wrote:
> 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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