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kleptophobiac

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From: Sunnyvale, CA

Registered: 2004-04-25

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Web-based system to manage Apache basic authentication credentials?

I run a small server in an educational environment where users are coming and going all the time. The real solution is to tie authentication with the university's Kerberos system, but alas, the IT department is slow.

Is there a good package that I can install that will allow management of the users and hashes in an Apache basic authentication file from a web interface? I'm happy with the command line approach, but I want to empower a few less command-line savvy people to do user management.

Thanks for the help!

fukawi2

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From: .vic.au

Registered: 2007-09-28

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Re: Web-based system to manage Apache basic authentication credentials?

I'm not aware of one specificly; perhaps Webmin?

I can't imagine it's such a good idea... To be able to alter the .htaccess file would require the apache user to have write permission, which just screams bad idea to me.

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kleptophobiac

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From: Sunnyvale, CA

Registered: 2004-04-25

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Re: Web-based system to manage Apache basic authentication credentials?

Thanks for the pointer, though I agree that it's probably a bad approach. Whatever web app it is, it doesn't need to have access to the .htaccess file, just the .svn-auth file I've created with a list of users and hashes. It's not great from a security model perspective, but this isn't an application that requires utmost security.