[users@httpd] Digest authentication and single sign-on, correct format and browsers supporting

[Paul Morris]

I want to achieve a single sign-on interface for all of the sub domains of a given top level domain. For this I have identified Digest authentication as an appropriate solution thanks to its support for enabling multiple domains to share the same user credentials.

I have the AuthDigestDomain directive set to "/ http://base.url.com:8000/ http://one.base.url.com:8000/ http://two.base.url.com:8000/"; in my Apache configuration file. I can see this value being forwarded verbatim to the browser by Apache in the response headers correctly.

I point a browser to http://base.url.com:8000/ to sign on, which works. However, when I then connect to any of the other listed URLs, http://one.base.url.com:8000/ and http://two.base.url.com:8000/, I still get a sign-on prompt. I realise that support for this feature of Digest must be implemented by the browser. So far I have tried Firefox 1.5, IE7, Opera 9.26 and Safari 3.0.4 -- all of which refuse to provide the same login credentials on these domains without re-prompting for the user information. The realm is set to the same value for all domains.

Here is an extract from my configuration file for the digest authentication:

<Directory /home/web>
       AuthType Digest
       AuthName Example

AuthDigestDomain / http://base.url.com:8000/ http://one.base.url.com:8000/ http://two.base.url.com:8000/

       AuthUserFile my.db
       Require valid-user
</Directory>



Thanks!
Paul.
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