Re: [Dspace-tech] work around authentication mechanism RESOLVED

2009-10-01 Thread Van Ly
In case anyone else has to do this, what I ended up doing was copy out the needed bitstream paths to the filesystem, and present them with a standard apache httpd with .htaccess settings for access control based on originating ip-address or basic authentication. On 28/09/2009, at 5:05 PM,

Re: [Dspace-tech] work around authentication mechanism

2009-09-28 Thread Van Ly
Hi, I've a need to completely disable DSpace authenticated access and use instead iptables(8) for restricting access based on ip-address. Does anybody know the easiest way to achieve this? Thanks in advance. -- Van Ly On 23/09/2009, at 10:02 AM, Van Ly wrote: Thanks Larry. The desired

[Dspace-tech] work around authentication mechanism

2009-09-10 Thread Van Ly
Hi, I may have a situation where one of the items in the list for `plugin.sequence.org.dspace.eperson.AuthenticationMethod' isn't behaving as expected. To work around, if I need to put up a firewall to restrict access based on ip-address and bypass the authentication mechanism entirely,

Re: [Dspace-tech] work around authentication mechanism

2009-09-10 Thread Larry Stone
If you just want to deny all access based on the requestor's IP address, that is best done in the web server or servlet container. If you're using naked Tomcat, see the doc for org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve. If you're using Apache httpd it's very easy to configure, just see