CSWS 1.3 (Apache) and authvms

[John Yu_1]

Has anyone gotten this to play?
Just want to get an idea of what's
involved.

[Willem Grooters]

John.

Of course, it's in the manual, check for MOD_AUTH_OPENVMS paragraph...

Basically, it's fairly easy: you have to edit HTTPD.CONF as follows:

In the section commented:

# Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) Support

add line (must be 1 line, NO wrapping):

LoadModule auth_openvms_module /apache$common/modules/mod_auth_openvms.exe_alpha

and for each location/directory you need authentication on, just specify:

AuthType Basic
Authname ""
AuthUserOpenVMS on

require valid-user

The prompt can be any text (you can eventually masquerade your site as MS IIS, I know people who did....)
You can let VMS take care of authentication (advisable!) of specify the users here like:

require user

You can also specify required identifiers - if a user doesn't hold it, there is no access:

require group

Boths lists are space-separated values.

Alas, I cannot give you prove, since my firewall hasn't been setup properly yet....

Willem

[John Yu_1]

Thanks, turns out some of the problems were due a bad cgi setup on the box - darn System Manglers!

Will play with this stuff some more.