Apache: using system passwords

Robbo ml at the-view.eclipse.co.uk
Tue Aug 2 18:24:35 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 08:25 -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> I'd like my Apache users to be able to sign into a specific
> part of their site using the same password that they use for
> email and shell access. I assume this is possible? It
> certainly would be more convenient and less hackish: as it
> stands, keeping their htpasswd password synched with their
> shell password is a pain, when it's not flat-out impossible.
> 
> There must be some canonical way to do this, right? Maybe
> using PAM somehow?
> 

If your looking for a single sign on-solution for your whole site read
up on Kerberos and LDAP.  The module for Apache is then mod_auth_kerb.





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