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Top Forums Web Development User authentication for some Perl CGI scripts Post 302258235 by cbkihong on Friday 14th of November 2008 05:26:23 AM
Old 11-14-2008
I'm not exactly sure what you meant by "I do not want to restrict the page to a few. Will this method not require me to explicitly add usernames of who can access". Well, there must be a list of users defined with password (password store) with any kind of authentication system. However, you can choose a format that allows you to more easily update who can have access (i.e. update the access list). You can also choose between an allow-by-default policy or a deny-by-default policy. That is if you don't want to have everybody authenticate, you can use an allow-by-default policy to define those explicitly require authentication, while the unstated ones can enter without authentication. This is all possible with easy Apache config.

The default password store is a text file. But Apache contains additional modules that allows you to put the authentication info in SQL database or DBM files that you can choose from. You can modify data stored in them from Perl.

I suggest you build yourself a simple test environment and see if that fits your use case because I'm not exactly sure what you meant.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

htdigest

HTDIGEST(1)                                                          htdigest                                                          HTDIGEST(1)

NAME

       htdigest - manage user files for digest authentication

SYNOPSIS

       htdigest [ -c ] passwdfile realm username

SUMMARY

       htdigest  is  used to create and update the flat-files used to store usernames, realm and password for digest authentication of HTTP users.
       Resources available from the Apache HTTP server can be restricted to just the users listed in the files created by htdigest.

       This manual page only lists the command line arguments. For details of the directives necessary to configure digest authentication in httpd
       see the Apache manual, which is part of the Apache distribution or can be found at http://httpd.apache.org/.

OPTIONS

       -c     Create the passwdfile. If passwdfile already exists, it is deleted first.

       passwdfile
              Name  of the file to contain the username, realm and password. If -c is given, this file is created if it does not already exist, or
              deleted and recreated if it does exist.

       realm  The realm name to which the user name belongs. See http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2617#section-3.2.1 for more details.

       username
              The user name to create or update in passwdfile. If username does not exist is this file, an entry is added. If it does  exist,  the
              password is changed.

SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS

       This program is not safe as a setuid executable. Do not make it setuid.

Apache HTTP Server                                                  2012-07-19                                                         HTDIGEST(1)
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