Using Htaccess-Register - Netscape ENTREPRISE SERVER 6.1 - 08-2002 ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Working with Dynamic Access Control Files
To convert your files, at the command prompt, enter the path to Perl on your
system, the path to the plug-in script, and the path to your
example:
server_root
server_root
All
.nsconfig
The
groups-with-users
groups. If you have many users in a group, follow these steps:
Revise the format of the user file format to list all the groups a user belongs to:
1.
username:password:group1,group2,group3,...group
Revise the
2.
AuthUserFile
Alternatively, you can:
Remove the
1.
Add the following to the
2.
file:
groups-with-users="yes"

Using htaccess-register

The
htaccess-register
authentication methods. You can create external authentication modules and plug
them into the
are provided in server_root
You can use external modules to create one or more new directives. For example,
you might specify the user database for authentication. The directives may not
appear within
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\install\perl server_root/plugins/htaccess/htconvert
/https-identifier/config/server.xml
files are converted to
option facilitates handling large numbers of users in
directive to point to the same file as the
AuthGroupFile
.
directive entirely.
AuthGroupFile
Init fn=htaccess-init
is a new function allowing you to create your own
module via
.htaccess
/plugins/nsapi/htaccess
or
<Limit> <LimitExcept>
files, but not deleted.
.htaccess
line in the
htaccess-register
.
tags.
file. For
server.xml
n
magnus.conf
. Two sample modules