It's not an "active" authentication. The script I created only dumps the Xmail users once and creates Apache user and group files. I set mine to run as a cron job every 48 hours so it picks up changes.
The only overhead involved is the script running via cron every 48 hours (less than 2 seconds for a 200+ user system) and Apache's normal overhead for authenticating users. The user and group files are static until corn or I regenerate them using my script. The script might as well be a bash script, but I was experimenting with PHP on the command line (nice!) Hope that explains it a bit better, Bryn ----- Original Message ----- Subject: [xmail] Re: Xmail users to Apache users Usefull? Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 22:57:29 +0200 From: S�nke_Ruempler NOTA Postmaster wrote: > I posted this a little bit back, but the list was down. > > I wrote a PHP command line util for *nix boxen that will output Xmail as > Apache AuthUsersFile and AuthGroupFile format files for use with > ..htaccess. If you enough people are interested, I'll clean up the code > an release it. If not, oh well - It did it's job for me already. Don't you think that has too much overhead for real-time web applications? Note: The authentication is done on _every_ request to the webserver. I can't believe that works without caching mechanisms ... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
