On Saturday 03 February 2007 02:27, Adis Nezirovic wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 02:58:13PM -0900, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > > Problem! We're trying to set up a new mail host with (among other things) > > dpsam and lighttpd. Everything is working fine, until I hit a block > > today. dspam.cgi references the environment variable REMOTE_USER, which > > means it assumes the web server has done the authentication already. > > Well, lighttpd won't do authentication against /etc/shadow, and neither > > LDAP or trying to maintain two password databases are feasible options > > right now. > > I don't know about lighty, but I was able to use mod_auth_imap2 (for > apache 2.2.x) for authentication. Maybe lighttpd has similar module?
I don't believe so, as the only auth module lighty has is one that supports htpasswd files and ldap. I'll look around for third party modules. mod_auth_imap2 sounds compelling. j -- Joshua Kugler Lead System Admin -- Senior Programmer http://www.eeinternet.com PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0xDB26D7CE PO Box 80086 -- Fairbanks, AK 99708 -- Ph: 907-456-5581 Fax: 907-456-3111
