htaccess to allow netlinkID and made-up username

Posted by on 09 Oct 2007 in Activity log

Lines to include in an .htaccess file to cause authentication to check against list of made-up user names first, then valid netlinkID's:

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted to username provided by us or UVic netlink ID"
AuthAuthoritative off
Require user [made-up-user-name]
AuthUserFile [absolute/path/].htpasswd
Require valid-user

third line enables cascading authentication
fourth line lists user name(s) in local authentication file
fifth line specifies local authentication file
sixth line lists user name(s) in default authentication file
lack of line specifying another AuthUserFile causes default authentication to be invoked (ldap against netlinkIDs)

The path to the executable for editing the password file on lettuce is:
/usr/local/apache2/bin/htpasswd

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