Posted by Michael Vilain on 05/17/05 17:06

In article <1116335639.717821.25440@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
"joltman" <joltman@geocities.com> wrote:

> The only problem with that is that we are trying to avoid adding
> another password to the mix, as most people already have 3 to deal with
> (windows, e-mail, erp program)

Don't see a way around this problem. You can put passwords on pages
with Apache but the database is maintained separate from the Linux
passwd file. You could use NIS and use someone else's module:

http://www.webweaving.org/mod_auth_msql/other/mod_auth_nis.c

Alternately, you could "roll your own" Apache mod that does this for
you, but your web server would have to run as root.

Netscape's Enterprise Web server used to use LDAP for authentication
rather than the Apache .htaccess file approach. Since SUN bought
Netscape, I don't know what this product morphed into or if it would run
on Solaris X86. I'd forget about it running on Linux.

How important is this to you? Are you willing to commit programming
resources to it and maintain it later on?

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