Re: Basic Authentication with Apache?

On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Steve Holmes wrote:

> > I have Apache 1.3.28 running here and am playing around with a
> .htaccess file to control access to certain directories on my box. I
> would like to restrict access to some users that are already on my
> system. Apache normally uses a separate password file to secure the
> users in question. This means a separate password is required to gain
> access to the desired directory. Is there any way to get Apache to
> use the standard linux passwords instead of having to create and use
> separate passwords? I've seen CUPS do exactly this. I don't recall
> exactly how they go about it but then again, CUPS has its own HTTP
> processor too.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks.
>

Have you considered mod_auth_pam? I believe it will do what you're after.

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