NAME

Apache::MultiAuth - Choose from a number of authentication modules at runtime

SYNOPSIS

Put lines like this in your httpd.conf. In this example authorization is requested
for accessing the directory /test. First the credentials (username, password) are
checked against the module Apache::AuthSybase and then against the module
Apache::AuthenSmb. If any of them succeeds, access to /test is granted.

  # in httpd.conf
  # Important : if not set apachectl configtest will complain about syntax errors

 PerlModule  Apache::MultiAuth

  <Location /test>
    AuthName Test
    AuthType Basic

    # PerlSetVars for various Apache::Auth* modules
    # These here are example values for Apache::AuthenSmb
    PerlSetVar myPDC SAMBA
    PerlSetVar myDOMAIN ARBEITSGRUPPE

    # Define order and class of Auth modules to try
    AuthModule Apache::AuthSybase Apache::AuthenSmb

    PerlAuthenHandler Apache::MultiAuth
    require valid-user
  </Location>


DESCRIPTION

Apache::MultiAuth allows you to specify multiple authentication
modules, to be tried in order.  If any module in the list returns OK,
then the user is considered authenticated; if none return OK, then the
MultiAuth module returns AUTH_REQUIRED and the user is reprompted for
credentials. This, depending on the browser, results in a 401 authorization
required message.

This is useful for cases where, for example, you have several
authentication schemes:  for example, NIS, SMB, and htpasswd, and some
of your users are only registered in some of the auth databases.
Using Apache::MultiAuth, they can be queried in order until the right
one is found.


CONFIGURATION DIRECTIVES

Apache::MultiAuth allows you to name a number of authentication
modules, using the AuthModule directive.  These modules are queried,
in the order they are provided, until one of them returns OK.
Apache::MultiAuth then condiders authentication to be successful, and
processing continues. If none of the provided authentication modules
returns OK, Apache::MultiAuth passes AUTH_REQUIRED to apache, which
results in a 401 Authorization required error.


INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

Cd to this directory. Then type:

perl Makefile.PL
make 
make install

Then add some apache directives similar to the above to your httpd.conf file.
Restart, resp. reload apache.

AUTHORS

    Stathy G. Touloumis
    Marcel M. Weber
    Darren Chamberlain