Mike wrote:
cation in Apache 2.0 is actually very nicely engineered. If you
want to store the username and the password, you can. However, you
don't have to.
Thanks for the reply.
The problem is that I need access to this info in the callback
function, and the callback does not have access to the request_rec.
For example..
auth_basic_user(){
do_some_stuff(); //Gets the user name and password(password as you
suggested) and stores them so that they can be used by later
callback. mm_login
call_cclient_to_auth();
return;
}
call_cclient_to_auth() takes no parms and eventually uses callback
functions to do things, one of these being to get the user/password
to auth with. This is by design of the c-client lib and not
something I can change.
PAM is very similar - it uses a callback. However, it also uses a
void pointer that gets passed in a setup function earlier. Anything
like that available? (e.g. to call it with an r-> or a custom
structure with the info?)
Unfortunately not, that was what I had hoped to do originally.
Mike.
Is there a thread-safe form of the library? (that sort of thing will
have functions that take parameters if it uses callbacks). Another
alternative is to set up another "daemon" process for the authentication
mechanism - which may or may not cause the rest of the module to fail
depending on what you do.
In other words, you just might have to use a global variable and set up
mutex's to prevent multiple instances from calling during the
authentication - or else expect the unexpected.
Joe
