apache authentication via nis

[a.medico at gmail.com (Andrew Medico)]

On 8/17/06, Stephen Adler <adler at stephenadler.com> wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I want to setup authorization access to my web server using the username
> and passwords which are found in the /etc/passwd file. (i.e. if I add a
> user to my system, then they should be able to access the website using
> their same username password as they do to log in.)

Apache's "auth_pam" module can use whatever you have PAM set up to use
- files, NIS, LDAP, Winbind, whatever.

-- 
Andrew Medico <a.medico at gmail.com>