Check/Change password w/ Apache

[Martin Vorlaender]

John,

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Does anyone know what (if anything) will be returned by auth_openvms_module that can be captured by a script and used to determine which path to take. In other words does auth_openvms_module send a status when account is ok, disusered, password expired, account locked out, etc?
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AFAIK, all mod_auth modules work the same way; for a CGI script to be executed, the authentication must have been successful beforehand.

All the script can request are the normal environment variables, e.g. REMOTE_USER and AUTH_TYPE (probably set to something like "Basic").

Or so I interpret the Installation Guide, see http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/ips/apache/csws_iguide.html , section 4.5:

"When a user seeks to open a file in that directory, the user will be prompted for a username and password. That username and password must match entries in the SYSUAF.DAT file. Furthermore, the SYSUAF.DAT entry must allow a network login for that username at the time of the request."

cu,
Martin

[John Donovan_4]

But is there some sort of indicator of pass or fail?

[Martin Vorlaender]

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But is there some sort of indicator of pass or fail?
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Easy: If authentication failed, the script won't be started at all.

cu,
Martin