Re: [viewvc-users] Re: Authentication

On 04/30/2012 09:19 AM, Parekh, Birju wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am setting up Rancid on Fedora. I am using ViewVC and CVS for the webview.
> Is there a way to authenticate the viewvc page. I donot want to use LDAP
> just something generic where it prompts for username and password. If these
> is possible can you send me instructions on how to do these.

Check out this information regarding authentication and access control under
Apache:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/auth.html

The simplest Apache configuration generally looks something like this for,
say, a ViewVC instance that's exposed at http://myserver.com/apps/viewvc:

<Location /apps/viewvc>
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Rancid Users"
    AuthUserFile /path/to/htpasswd-file
    Require valid-user
</LocationMatch>

And then you have the file which contains the usernames and passwords
against which your users authenticate, located at the path indicated by the
AuthUserFile directive, and created/managed by the 'htpasswd' program
provided with the Apache HTTP Server distribution.

-- 
C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
CollabNet   <>   www.collab.net   <>   Enterprise Cloud Development

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