On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Malka Cymbalista <malki.cymbali...@weizmann.ac.il> wrote: > We are running apache 2.2.6 on a Linux machine. We have enabledldap > authentication. I would like to allow users to authenticate to aparticular > directory either using a valid ldap userid from a list ofvalid userids or if > they are a member of a group that I have defined inan external file. > I put the following code into my httpd.conf file > > <Directory /my/directory> > AuthType Basic > AuthName "Private Pages" > AuthBasicProvider ldap file > AuthGroupFile /WWW/httpd/conf/.htgroup > AuthUserFile /WWW/httpd/conf/.htpasswd > AuthLDAPRemoteUserAttribute cn > AuthLDAPURL "ldaps://a.server.com:111/o=Users?cn" > AuthLDAPBindDN cn=InternetAuthUser,o=system > AuthLDAPBindPassword xxxxx > AuthzLDAPAuthoritative Off > AuthLDAPRemoteUserIsDN On > Require group scientists > Require user user1 abuser > > > This did not work. The only way that I was able to allow theusers user1 and > abuser to get in to the directory was by creating agroup for the and adding > that group to the require group line anddeleting the Require user line. > Is there a way to authenticate either via a user or via a group? >
You'll need to clarify the details, and show when/how it's failing, but there's no reason why your authorization shouldn't be able to do group OR user. -- Eric Covener cove...@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org