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<p class="menu"><a href="../mod/">Modules</a> | <a href="../mod/directives.html">Directives</a> | <a href="../faq/">FAQ</a> | <a href="../glossary.html">Glossary</a> | <a href="../sitemap.html">Sitemap</a></p>
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<p class="apache">Apache HTTP Server Version 2.5</p>
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<a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">HTTP Server</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/">Documentation</a> > <a href="../">Version 2.5</a> > <a href="./">How-To / Tutorials</a></div><div id="page-content"><div id="preamble"><h1>Authentication, Authorization and Access Control</h1>
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<p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/howto/auth.html" title="English"> en </a> |
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<a href="../fr/howto/auth.html" hreflang="fr" rel="alternate" title="Français"> fr </a> |
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<a href="../ja/howto/auth.html" hreflang="ja" rel="alternate" title="Japanese"> ja </a> |
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<p>Authentication is any process by which you verify that
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someone is who they claim they are. Authorization is any
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process by which someone is allowed to be where they want to
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go, or to have information that they want to have.</p>
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<p>For general access control, see the <a href="access.html">Access
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Control How-To</a>.</p>
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</div>
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<div id="quickview"><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#related">Related Modules and Directives</a></li>
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<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#introduction">Introduction</a></li>
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<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#theprerequisites">The Prerequisites</a></li>
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<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#gettingitworking">Getting it working</a></li>
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<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#lettingmorethanonepersonin">Letting more than one
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person in</a></li>
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<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#possibleproblems">Possible problems</a></li>
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<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#dbmdbd">Alternate password storage</a></li>
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<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#multprovider">Using multiple providers</a></li>
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<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#beyond">Beyond just authorization</a></li>
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<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#socache">Authentication Cacheing</a></li>
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<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#moreinformation">More information</a></li>
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</ul></div>
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<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
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<div class="section">
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<h2><a name="related" id="related">Related Modules and Directives</a></h2>
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<p>There are three types of modules involved in the authentication and
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authorization process. You will usually need to choose at least one
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module from each group.</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Authentication type (see the
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<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_core.html#authtype">AuthType</a></code> directive)
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<ul>
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<li><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_auth_basic.html">mod_auth_basic</a></code></li>
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<li><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_auth_digest.html">mod_auth_digest</a></code></li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>Authentication provider (see the
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<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_auth_basic.html#authbasicprovider">AuthBasicProvider</a></code> and
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<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_auth_digest.html#authdigestprovider">AuthDigestProvider</a></code> directives)
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<ul>
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<li><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_anon.html">mod_authn_anon</a></code></li>
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<li><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_dbd.html">mod_authn_dbd</a></code></li>
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<li><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_dbm.html">mod_authn_dbm</a></code></li>
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<li><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_file.html">mod_authn_file</a></code></li>
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<li><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authnz_ldap.html">mod_authnz_ldap</a></code></li>
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<li><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_socache.html">mod_authn_socache</a></code></li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>Authorization (see the
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<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_core.html#require">Require</a></code> directive)
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<ul>
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<li><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authnz_ldap.html">mod_authnz_ldap</a></code></li>
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<li><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_dbd.html">mod_authz_dbd</a></code></li>
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<li><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_dbm.html">mod_authz_dbm</a></code></li>
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<li><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_groupfile.html">mod_authz_groupfile</a></code></li>
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<li><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_host.html">mod_authz_host</a></code></li>
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<li><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_owner.html">mod_authz_owner</a></code></li>
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<li><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_user.html">mod_authz_user</a></code></li>
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</ul>
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</ul>
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<p>In addition to these modules, there are also
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<code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_core.html">mod_authn_core</a></code> and
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<code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_core.html">mod_authz_core</a></code>. These module implement core
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directives that are core to all auth modules.</p>
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<p>The module <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authnz_ldap.html">mod_authnz_ldap</a></code> is both an
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authentication and authorization provider. The module
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<code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_host.html">mod_authz_host</a></code> provides authorization
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and access control based on hostname, IP address or characteristics
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of the request, but is not part of the authentication provider
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system. For backwards compatibility with the mod_access, there is
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a new module <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_access_compat.html">mod_access_compat</a></code>.</p>
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<p>You probably also want to take a look at the <a href="access.html">Access Control</a> howto, which discusses the
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various ways to control access to your server.</p>
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</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
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<div class="section">
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<h2><a name="introduction" id="introduction">Introduction</a></h2>
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<p>If you have information on your web site that is sensitive
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or intended for only a small group of people, the techniques in
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this article will help you make sure that the people that see
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those pages are the people that you wanted to see them.</p>
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<p>This article covers the "standard" way of protecting parts
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of your web site that most of you are going to use.</p>
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<div class="note"><h3>Note:</h3>
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<p>If your data really needs to be secure, consider using
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<code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_ssl.html">mod_ssl</a></code> in addition to any authentication.</p>
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</div>
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</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
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<div class="section">
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<h2><a name="theprerequisites" id="theprerequisites">The Prerequisites</a></h2>
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<p>The directives discussed in this article will need to go
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either in your main server configuration file (typically in a
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<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#directory"><Directory></a></code> section), or
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in per-directory configuration files (<code>.htaccess</code> files).</p>
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<p>If you plan to use <code>.htaccess</code> files, you will
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need to have a server configuration that permits putting
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authentication directives in these files. This is done with the
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<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#allowoverride">AllowOverride</a></code> directive, which
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specifies which directives, if any, may be put in per-directory
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configuration files.</p>
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<p>Since we're talking here about authentication, you will need
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an <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#allowoverride">AllowOverride</a></code> directive like the
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following:</p>
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<div class="example"><p><code>
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AllowOverride AuthConfig
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</code></p></div>
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<p>Or, if you are just going to put the directives directly in
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your main server configuration file, you will of course need to
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have write permission to that file.</p>
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<p>And you'll need to know a little bit about the directory
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structure of your server, in order to know where some files are
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kept. This should not be terribly difficult, and I'll try to
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make this clear when we come to that point.</p>
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<p>You will also need to make sure that the modules
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<code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_core.html">mod_authn_core</a></code> and <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_core.html">mod_authz_core</a></code>
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have either been built into the httpd binary or loaded by the
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httpd.conf configuration file. Both of these modules provide core
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directives and functionality that are critical to the configuration
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and use of authentication and authorization in the web server.</p>
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</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
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<div class="section">
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<h2><a name="gettingitworking" id="gettingitworking">Getting it working</a></h2>
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<p>Here's the basics of password protecting a directory on your
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server.</p>
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<p>First, you need to create a password file. Exactly how you do
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this will vary depending on what authentication provider you have
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chosen. More on that later. To start with, we'll use a text password
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file.</p>
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<p>This file should be
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placed somewhere not accessible from the web. This is so that
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folks cannot download the password file. For example, if your
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documents are served out of <code>/usr/local/apache/htdocs</code> you
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might want to put the password file(s) in
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<code>/usr/local/apache/passwd</code>.</p>
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<p>To create the file, use the <code class="program"><a href="../programs/htpasswd.html">htpasswd</a></code> utility that
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came with Apache. This will be located in the <code>bin</code> directory
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of wherever you installed Apache. If you have installed Apache from
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a third-party package, it may be in your execution path.</p>
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<p>To create the file, type:</p>
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<div class="example"><p><code>
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htpasswd -c /usr/local/apache/passwd/passwords rbowen
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</code></p></div>
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<p><code class="program"><a href="../programs/htpasswd.html">htpasswd</a></code> will ask you for the password, and
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then ask you to type it again to confirm it:</p>
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<div class="example"><p><code>
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# htpasswd -c /usr/local/apache/passwd/passwords rbowen<br />
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New password: mypassword<br />
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Re-type new password: mypassword<br />
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Adding password for user rbowen
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</code></p></div>
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<p>If <code class="program"><a href="../programs/htpasswd.html">htpasswd</a></code> is not in your path, of course
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you'll have to type the full path to the file to get it to run.
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With a default installation, it's located at
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<code>/usr/local/apache2/bin/htpasswd</code></p>
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<p>Next, you'll need to configure the server to request a
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password and tell the server which users are allowed access.
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You can do this either by editing the <code>httpd.conf</code>
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file or using an <code>.htaccess</code> file. For example, if
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you wish to protect the directory
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<code>/usr/local/apache/htdocs/secret</code>, you can use the
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following directives, either placed in the file
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<code>/usr/local/apache/htdocs/secret/.htaccess</code>, or
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placed in <code>httpd.conf</code> inside a <Directory
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/usr/local/apache/htdocs/secret> section.</p>
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<div class="example"><p><code>
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AuthType Basic<br />
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AuthName "Restricted Files"<br />
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# (Following line optional)<br />
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AuthBasicProvider file<br />
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AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/passwd/passwords<br />
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Require user rbowen
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</code></p></div>
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<p>Let's examine each of those directives individually. The <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_core.html#authtype">AuthType</a></code> directive selects
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that method that is used to authenticate the user. The most
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common method is <code>Basic</code>, and this is the method
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implemented by <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_auth_basic.html">mod_auth_basic</a></code>. It is important to be aware,
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however, that Basic authentication sends the password from the client to
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the server unencrypted. This method should therefore not be used for
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highly sensitive data, unless accompanied by <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_ssl.html">mod_ssl</a></code>.
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Apache supports one other authentication method:
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<code>AuthType Digest</code>. This method is implemented by <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_auth_digest.html">mod_auth_digest</a></code> and is much more secure. Most recent
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browsers support Digest authentication.</p>
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<p>The <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_core.html#authname">AuthName</a></code> directive sets
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the <dfn>Realm</dfn> to be used in the authentication. The realm serves
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two major functions. First, the client often presents this information to
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the user as part of the password dialog box. Second, it is used by the
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client to determine what password to send for a given authenticated
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area.</p>
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<p>So, for example, once a client has authenticated in the
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<code>"Restricted Files"</code> area, it will automatically
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retry the same password for any area on the same server that is
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marked with the <code>"Restricted Files"</code> Realm.
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Therefore, you can prevent a user from being prompted more than
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once for a password by letting multiple restricted areas share
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the same realm. Of course, for security reasons, the client
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will always need to ask again for the password whenever the
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hostname of the server changes.</p>
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<p>The <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_auth_basic.html#authbasicprovider">AuthBasicProvider</a></code> is,
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in this case, optional, since <code>file</code> is the default value
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for this directive. You'll need to use this directive if you are
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choosing a different source for authentication, such as
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<code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_dbm.html">mod_authn_dbm</a></code> or <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_dbd.html">mod_authn_dbd</a></code>.</p>
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<p>The <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_file.html#authuserfile">AuthUserFile</a></code>
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directive sets the path to the password file that we just
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created with <code class="program"><a href="../programs/htpasswd.html">htpasswd</a></code>. If you have a large number
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of users, it can be quite slow to search through a plain text
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file to authenticate the user on each request. Apache also has
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the ability to store user information in fast database files.
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The <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_dbm.html">mod_authn_dbm</a></code> module provides the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_dbm.html#authdbmuserfile">AuthDBMUserFile</a></code> directive. These
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files can be created and manipulated with the <code class="program"><a href="../programs/dbmmanage.html">dbmmanage</a></code> program. Many
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other types of authentication options are available from third
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party modules in the <a href="http://modules.apache.org/">Apache Modules
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Database</a>.</p>
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<p>Finally, the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_core.html#require">Require</a></code>
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directive provides the authorization part of the process by
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setting the user that is allowed to access this region of the
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server. In the next section, we discuss various ways to use the
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<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_core.html#require">Require</a></code> directive.</p>
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</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
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<div class="section">
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<h2><a name="lettingmorethanonepersonin" id="lettingmorethanonepersonin">Letting more than one
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person in</a></h2>
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<p>The directives above only let one person (specifically
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someone with a username of <code>rbowen</code>) into the
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directory. In most cases, you'll want to let more than one
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person in. This is where the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_groupfile.html#authgroupfile">AuthGroupFile</a></code> comes in.</p>
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<p>If you want to let more than one person in, you'll need to
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create a group file that associates group names with a list of
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users in that group. The format of this file is pretty simple,
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and you can create it with your favorite editor. The contents
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of the file will look like this:</p>
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<div class="example"><p><code>
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GroupName: rbowen dpitts sungo rshersey
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</code></p></div>
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<p>That's just a list of the members of the group in a long
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line separated by spaces.</p>
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<p>To add a user to your already existing password file,
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type:</p>
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<div class="example"><p><code>
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htpasswd /usr/local/apache/passwd/passwords dpitts
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</code></p></div>
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<p>You'll get the same response as before, but it will be
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appended to the existing file, rather than creating a new file.
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(It's the <code>-c</code> that makes it create a new password
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file).</p>
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<p>Now, you need to modify your <code>.htaccess</code> file to
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look like the following:</p>
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<div class="example"><p><code>
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AuthType Basic<br />
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AuthName "By Invitation Only"<br />
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# Optional line:<br />
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AuthBasicProvider file<br />
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AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/passwd/passwords<br />
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AuthGroupFile /usr/local/apache/passwd/groups<br />
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Require group GroupName
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</code></p></div>
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<p>Now, anyone that is listed in the group <code>GroupName</code>,
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and has an entry in the <code>password</code> file, will be let in, if
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they type the correct password.</p>
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<p>There's another way to let multiple users in that is less
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specific. Rather than creating a group file, you can just use
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the following directive:</p>
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<div class="example"><p><code>
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Require valid-user
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</code></p></div>
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<p>Using that rather than the <code>Require user rbowen</code>
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line will allow anyone in that is listed in the password file,
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and who correctly enters their password. You can even emulate
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the group behavior here, by just keeping a separate password
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file for each group. The advantage of this approach is that
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Apache only has to check one file, rather than two. The
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disadvantage is that you have to maintain a bunch of password
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|
files, and remember to reference the right one in the
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<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_file.html#authuserfile">AuthUserFile</a></code> directive.</p>
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</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
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<div class="section">
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<h2><a name="possibleproblems" id="possibleproblems">Possible problems</a></h2>
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<p>Because of the way that Basic authentication is specified,
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your username and password must be verified every time you
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request a document from the server. This is even if you're
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reloading the same page, and for every image on the page (if
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they come from a protected directory). As you can imagine, this
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slows things down a little. The amount that it slows things
|
|
down is proportional to the size of the password file, because
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it has to open up that file, and go down the list of users
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until it gets to your name. And it has to do this every time a
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page is loaded.</p>
|
|
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<p>A consequence of this is that there's a practical limit to
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how many users you can put in one password file. This limit
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will vary depending on the performance of your particular
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server machine, but you can expect to see slowdowns once you
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get above a few hundred entries, and may wish to consider a
|
|
different authentication method at that time.</p>
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</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
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<div class="section">
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<h2><a name="dbmdbd" id="dbmdbd">Alternate password storage</a></h2>
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<p>Because storing passwords in plain text files has the above
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|
problems, you may wish to store your passwords somewhere else, such
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|
as in a database.</p>
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|
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|
<p><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_dbm.html">mod_authn_dbm</a></code> and <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_dbd.html">mod_authn_dbd</a></code> are two
|
|
modules which make this possible. Rather than selecting <code><code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_auth_basic.html#authbasicprovider">AuthBasicProvider</a></code> file</code>, instead
|
|
you can choose <code>dbm</code> or <code>dbd</code> as your storage
|
|
format.</p>
|
|
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|
<p>To select a dbd file rather than a text file, for example:</p>
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|
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|
<div class="example"><p><code>
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<Directory /www/docs/private><br />
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|
<span class="indent">
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AuthName "Private"<br />
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AuthType Basic<br />
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|
AuthBasicProvider dbm<br />
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AuthDBMUserFile /www/passwords/passwd.dbm<br />
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Require valid-user<br />
|
|
</span>
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|
</Directory>
|
|
</code></p></div>
|
|
|
|
<p>Other options are available. Consult the
|
|
<code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_dbm.html">mod_authn_dbm</a></code> documentation for more details.</p>
|
|
</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
|
|
<div class="section">
|
|
<h2><a name="multprovider" id="multprovider">Using multiple providers</a></h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>With the introduction of the new provider based authentication and
|
|
authorization architecture, you are no longer locked into a single
|
|
authentication or authorization method. In fact any number of the
|
|
providers can be mixed and matched to provide you with exactly the
|
|
scheme that meets your needs. In the following example, both the
|
|
file and LDAP based authentication providers are being used.</p>
|
|
|
|
<div class="example"><p><code>
|
|
<Directory /www/docs/private><br />
|
|
<span class="indent">
|
|
AuthName "Private"<br />
|
|
AuthType Basic<br />
|
|
AuthBasicProvider file ldap<br />
|
|
AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/passwd/passwords<br />
|
|
AuthLDAPURL ldap://ldaphost/o=yourorg<br />
|
|
Require valid-user<br />
|
|
</span>
|
|
</Directory>
|
|
</code></p></div>
|
|
|
|
<p>In this example the file provider will attempt to authenticate
|
|
the user first. If it is unable to authenticate the user, the LDAP
|
|
provider will be called. This allows the scope of authentication
|
|
to be broadened if your organization implements more than
|
|
one type of authentication store. Other authentication and authorization
|
|
scenarios may include mixing one type of authentication with a
|
|
different type of authorization. For example, authenticating against
|
|
a password file yet authorizing against an LDAP directory.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Just as multiple authentication providers can be implemented, multiple
|
|
authorization methods can also be used. In this example both file group
|
|
authorization as well as LDAP group authorization is being used.</p>
|
|
|
|
<div class="example"><p><code>
|
|
<Directory /www/docs/private><br />
|
|
<span class="indent">
|
|
AuthName "Private"<br />
|
|
AuthType Basic<br />
|
|
AuthBasicProvider file<br />
|
|
AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/passwd/passwords<br />
|
|
AuthLDAPURL ldap://ldaphost/o=yourorg
|
|
AuthGroupFile /usr/local/apache/passwd/groups<br />
|
|
Require group GroupName<br />
|
|
Require ldap-group cn=mygroup,o=yourorg<br />
|
|
</span>
|
|
</Directory>
|
|
</code></p></div>
|
|
|
|
<p>To take authorization a little further, authorization container
|
|
directives such as
|
|
<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_core.html#requireall"><RequireAll></a></code>
|
|
and
|
|
<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_core.html#requireany"><RequireAny></a></code>
|
|
allow logic to be applied so that the order in which authorization
|
|
is handled can be completely controled through the configuration.
|
|
See <a href="../mod/mod_authz_core.html#logic">Authorization
|
|
Containers</a> for an example of they may be applied.</p>
|
|
|
|
</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
|
|
<div class="section">
|
|
<h2><a name="beyond" id="beyond">Beyond just authorization</a></h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>The way that authorization can be apply is now much more flexible
|
|
than just a single check against a single data store. Ordering, logic
|
|
and choosing how authorization will be done is now possible.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="authandororder" id="authandororder">Applying logic and ordering</a></h3>
|
|
<p>Controling how and in what order authorization will be applied
|
|
has been a bit of a mystery in the past. In Apache 2.2 a provider-based
|
|
authentication mechanism was introduced to decouple the actual
|
|
authentication process from authorization and supporting functionality.
|
|
One of the side benefits was that authentication providers could be
|
|
configured and called in a specific order which didn't depend on the
|
|
load order of the auth module itself. This same provider based mechanism
|
|
has been brought forward into authorization as well. What this means is
|
|
that the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_core.html#require">Require</a></code> directive
|
|
not only specifies which authorization methods should be used, it also
|
|
specifies the order in which they are called. Multiple authorization
|
|
methods are called in the same order in which the
|
|
<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_core.html#require">Require</a></code> directives
|
|
appear in the configuration.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>With the introduction of authorization container directives
|
|
such as
|
|
<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_core.html#requireall"><RequireAll></a></code>
|
|
and
|
|
<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_core.html#requireany"><RequireAny></a></code>,
|
|
the configuration also has control over when the
|
|
authorization methods are called and what criteria determines when
|
|
access is granted. See
|
|
<a href="../mod/mod_authz_core.html#logic">Authorization Containers</a>
|
|
for an example of how they may be used to express complex
|
|
authorization logic.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>By default all
|
|
<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_core.html#require">Require</a></code>
|
|
directives are handled as though contained within a
|
|
<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_core.html#requireany"><RequireAny></a></code>
|
|
container directive. In other words, if
|
|
any of the specified authorization methods succeed, then authorization
|
|
is granted.</p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="reqaccessctrl" id="reqaccessctrl">Using authorization providers for access control</a></h3>
|
|
<p>Authentication by username and password is only part of the
|
|
story. Frequently you want to let people in based on something
|
|
other than who they are. Something such as where they are
|
|
coming from.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The authorization providers <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_host.html# all">
|
|
all</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_host.html# env">
|
|
env</a></code>, <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_host.html# host">
|
|
host</a></code> and <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_host.html# ip">
|
|
ip</a></code> let you allow or deny access based other host based
|
|
criteria such as host name or ip address of the machine requesting
|
|
a document.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The usage of these providers is specified through the
|
|
<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_core.html#require">Require</a></code> directive.
|
|
This directive registers the authorization providers
|
|
that will be called during the authorization stage of the request
|
|
processing. For example:</p>
|
|
|
|
<div class="example"><p><code>
|
|
Require ip <var>address</var>
|
|
</code></p></div>
|
|
|
|
<p>where <var>address</var> is an IP address (or a partial IP
|
|
address) or:</p>
|
|
|
|
<div class="example"><p><code>
|
|
Require host <var>domain_name</var>
|
|
</code></p></div>
|
|
|
|
<p>where <var>domain_name</var> is a fully qualified domain name
|
|
(or a partial domain name); you may provide multiple addresses or
|
|
domain names, if desired.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>For example, if you have someone spamming your message
|
|
board, and you want to keep them out, you could do the
|
|
following:</p>
|
|
|
|
<div class="example"><p><code>
|
|
<RequireAll>
|
|
<span class="indent">
|
|
Require all granted<br />
|
|
Require not ip 10.252.46.165
|
|
</span>
|
|
</RequireAll>
|
|
</code></p></div>
|
|
|
|
<p>Visitors coming from that address will not be able to see
|
|
the content covered by this directive. If, instead, you have a
|
|
machine name, rather than an IP address, you can use that.</p>
|
|
|
|
<div class="example"><p><code>
|
|
<RequireAll>
|
|
<span class="indent">
|
|
Require all granted<br />
|
|
Require not host <var>host.example.com</var>
|
|
</span>
|
|
</RequireAll>
|
|
</code></p></div>
|
|
|
|
<p>And, if you'd like to block access from an entire domain,
|
|
you can specify just part of an address or domain name:</p>
|
|
|
|
<div class="example"><p><code>
|
|
<RequireAll>
|
|
<span class="indent">
|
|
Require all granted<br />
|
|
<RequireNone>
|
|
<span class="indent">
|
|
Require ip 192.168.205<br />
|
|
Require host phishers.example.com moreidiots.example<br />
|
|
Require host ke
|
|
</span>
|
|
</RequireNone>
|
|
</span>
|
|
</RequireAll>
|
|
</code></p></div>
|
|
|
|
<p>The above example uses the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_core.html#requirenone"><RequireNone></a></code> directive
|
|
to make sure that none of the
|
|
<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_core.html#require">Require</a></code> directives
|
|
contained within it
|
|
match their parameters before granting access.</p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="filesystem" id="filesystem">Access Control backwards compatibility</a></h3>
|
|
<p>One of the side effects of adopting a provider based mechanism for
|
|
authentication is that the need for the previous access control directives
|
|
<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_access_compat.html#order">Order</a></code>,
|
|
<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_access_compat.html#allow">Allow</a></code>,
|
|
<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_access_compat.html#deny">Deny</a></code> and
|
|
<code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_access_compat.html#satisfy">Satisfy</a></code> are no longer needed.
|
|
However to provide backwards compatibility for older configurations, these
|
|
directives have been moved to the <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_access_compat.html">mod_access_compat</a></code> module.</p>
|
|
|
|
|
|
</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
|
|
<div class="section">
|
|
<h2><a name="socache" id="socache">Authentication Cacheing</a></h2>
|
|
<p>There may be times when authentication puts an unacceptable load
|
|
on a provider or on your network. This is most likely to affect users
|
|
of <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_dbd.html">mod_authn_dbd</a></code> (or third-party/custom providers).
|
|
To deal with this, HTTPD 2.3/2.4 introduces a new cacheing provider
|
|
<code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_socache.html">mod_authn_socache</a></code> to cache credentials and reduce
|
|
the load on the origin provider(s).</p>
|
|
<p>This may offer a substantial performance boost to some users.</p>
|
|
</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
|
|
<div class="section">
|
|
<h2><a name="moreinformation" id="moreinformation">More information</a></h2>
|
|
<p>You should also read the documentation for
|
|
<code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_auth_basic.html">mod_auth_basic</a></code> and <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_host.html">mod_authz_host</a></code> which
|
|
contain some more information about how this all works.
|
|
The directive <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_core.html#<authnprovideralias>"><AuthnProviderAlias></a></code>
|
|
can also help in simplifying certain authentication configurations.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>The various ciphers supported by Apache for authentication data are
|
|
explained in <a href="../misc/password_encryptions.html">Password
|
|
Encryptions</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>And you may want to look at the <a href="access.html">Access
|
|
Control</a> howto, which discusses a number of related topics.</p>
|
|
|
|
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