[Fwd: Re: Stupid question of the day...] Apache-AuthenNIS

[Shannon Eric Peevey]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        Re: Stupid question of the day...
Date:   Mon, 20 Oct 2003 18:28:04 -0000
From:   Randy Trahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:     Shannon Eric Peevey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


Hi Shannon,

I was reading your post from June 25 concerning authenNIS.  I am on a 
Linux 8 machine and I am running Apache.  I am trying to have NIS 
authenticate users who try to access a certian directory.  I 
installed authenNIS and I put the appropriate directive in the main 
apache config file, but I don't even get an error message when I go 
to my "/protectected" directory in my file structure.  Did you ever 
have this problem?

Thanks!
Randy
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shannon Eric Peevey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
Randy Kobes wrote:

>On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I've built and installed a new Apache (2.0.46) with mod_ssl and
>>mod_perl... My goal is authentication via NIS, so I have the
>>following in an .htaccess file:
>>
>>AuthName TEST
>>AuthType Basic
>>PerlAuthenHandler Apache::AuthenNIS;
>>require valid-user
>>
>>My efforts, however, have been thwarted by the following error 
message:
>>
>>Wed Jun 25 15:44:54 2003] [error] failed to resolve handler
>>`Apache::AuthenNIS;' [Wed Jun 25 15:44:55 2003] [error] [client
>>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] Can't locate object method "boot" via package
>>"mod_perl::boot" at /opt/apache/lib/perl/Apache/Constants.pm
>>line 8. Compilation failed in require at
>>/opt/apache/lib/perl/Apache/AuthenNIS.pm line 4. BEGIN
>>failed--compilation aborted at
>>/opt/apache/lib/perl/Apache/AuthenNIS.pm line 4. Compilation
>>failed in require at (eval 6) line 1.
>>    
>>
>
>Apache::Constants is a mod_perl 1 package, whereas you're using
>mod_perl 2 (for Apache 2). If use of Apache::compat isn't enough
>to get this working, some porting of the module may be required -
>see the discussion of porting Apache Perl modules from mod_perl 1
>to 2 at http://perl.apache.org/.
>
>  
>
Feel free to contact me, as well.  I have contacted the author 
about 
porting the module, and if I can use you as a test environment, I 
can 
this ported rather quickly :)  (I don't have a NIS environment for 
me to 
test on, but I can make the changes, and you can test the install 
for 
me, and then we can get this mod to work for both versions of 
modperl...)
Anyone have an installation of apache 1 that is using NIS for 
authentication?  (I will need to be able to test the ported mod for 
compatibility with modperl 1, as well.)

speeves
cws
PS  We should probably attack Apache::AuthzNIS at the same time...  
It 
isn't much more work :)