RE: [viewvc-users] Re: Authentication

Thanks a lot. Now I am able to authenticate. I am in a test phase. Is there a way to authenticate towards LDAP instead of local authentication. I am a newbie and would really appreciate your help. 

OS: Fedora 16
Apache 2

Thanks

Birju Parekh
Network & Voice Engineer
Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation
680 N Lake Shore Driver Suite 1118
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone (312) 695 4775
Email: [email protected]


-----Original Message-----
From: C. Michael Pilato [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 10:54 AM
To: Parekh, Birju
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: 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.

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C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
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