Thank you for your response,

I assume in my 'environment' that a user as access only to one set of
credentials
so i don't need to give a user the option to enter a different set of
credential.

But it makes sense to return a 401.

I was trying to map the default mod_authz_svn behaviour that return
forbidden
if a user is authenticated and not authorised to access the
repository.

Thank you for mod_wsgi (thumbs up)

Cumps,

Filipe

On 19 Jul, 12:16, Graham Dumpleton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 19 July 2010 02:29, fampinheiro <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > I´m setting up a server where i can have multiple svn repositories.
> > The users that have access to that repositories aren´t static and
> > rewrite the authorisation file is not a good option in my opinion.
>
> > So i want to have the authorisation step to be handled by a script.
>
> > my directive under apache looks like this:
>
> > <Location /svn>
> >  DAV svn
> >  SVNParentPath c:/svn
>
> >  Require valid-user
>
> >  AuthType Basic
> >  AuthName "Svn Authentication"
> >  AuthBasicProvider wsgi
> >  WSGIAuthUserScript c:/scripts/authn.wsgi
> >  WSGIAccessScript c:/scripts/auths.wsgi
> >  Require valid-user
> > </Location>
>
> > authn.wsgi
>
> > def check_password(environ, user, password):
> >  if user == 'admin' or user == 'spy':
> >  if password == 'secret':
> >   return True
> >  return False
> >  return None
>
> > The authentication phase works worderfully.
>
> > The problem is the authorisation.
>
> > auths
>
> > def allow_access(environ, host):
> >  if environ['REMOTE_USER'] == 'admin'
> >  return True
> >  return False
>
> > i assume this was supposed to work !?
>
> No.
>
> > i was using mod_python and PythonAuthzHandler to do this.
>
> Which is not the same thing. The equivalent phase in mod_python is
> PythonAccessHandler.
>
> > Am i missing something !?
>
> Host access, ie., WSGIAaccessScript, is done before user
> authentication and so doesn't have access to user login information.
>
> > be gentle i'm new to this world :) and have a lot to learn.
>
> > ps: i also tried WSGIAuthGroupScript but apache returns status code
> > 401 and i want that if a valid user can´t access the repository to
> > return 403
>
> Apache returns 401 because that is the correct status code to return.
> If you don't return that you aren't giving a user the option to enter
> in a different set of credentials to allow them into area with more
> constrained authorisation requirements. Thus would be abusing the
> notion of how the HTTP authentication mechanism is supposed to work.
>
> Graham

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