Someone asked on IRC today about seemlessly mixing SSL Client
authentication (FakeBasicAuth) with normal basic authn.
As I understood it, users without a client cert should authenticate,
but those with one would be spared the authn dialogue.
A quick look at mod_ssl reveals that FakeBasicAuth sets r->user
in an Access hook, so it's set before authn. So what the user
asks is trivial: all it needs is an authn provider that accepts
any request in which r->user is set. I've just hacked up the
smallest-ever(?) module (attached) to do that.
This could also give users flexibility to mix-and-match basic
auth with other schemes in mod_rewrite style. Or no doubt
shoot themselves in the foot.
Thoughts?
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#include "httpd.h"
#include "http_request.h"
#include "http_config.h"
#include "ap_provider.h"
#include "mod_auth.h"
module AP_MODULE_DECLARE_DATA authn_fake_module;
static authn_status check_fake(request_rec *r, const char *u, const char *p)
{
return (r->user == NULL) ? AUTH_USER_NOT_FOUND : AUTH_GRANTED;
}
static void register_hooks(apr_pool_t *p)
{
static const authn_provider authn_fake_provider = {
&check_fake,
NULL,
};
#if AP_MODULE_MAGIC_AT_LEAST(2010,0)
ap_register_auth_provider(p, AUTHN_PROVIDER_GROUP, "fake",
AUTHN_PROVIDER_VERSION,
&authn_fake_provider, AP_AUTH_INTERNAL_PER_CONF);
#else
ap_register_provider(p, AUTHN_PROVIDER_GROUP, "fake", "0",
&authn_fake_provider);
#endif
}
#if AP_MODULE_MAGIC_AT_LEAST(2010,0)
AP_DECLARE_MODULE(authn_fake) =
#else
module AP_MODULE_DECLARE_DATA authn_fake_module =
#endif
{
STANDARD20_MODULE_STUFF,
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
register_hooks
};
