Two authentication mechanisms in apache

genderbender · 02-02-2011, 04:25 AM

Is there any way to provide different methods of authentication on a apache directory (used for webDAV). I need it to use htpasswd and winbind, can't find any guides on implementing them both. Basically domain users need to be able to access the webdav and other users (who will be provided with a username and password NOT on the domain).

EricTRA · 02-03-2011, 01:14 AM

Hello,

Don't know if it will be applicable to your situation but I have a Mercurial site set up to accept connections without authentication if coming from the same host and with LDAP authentication for everyone else. The connections without authentication are used for Hudson which is installed on the same server, so that it can run its builds without problems. Anybody else (developers) connecting to Mercurial need to provide their LDAP credentials. This is what I have in /etc/httpd/conf.d/mercurial.conf:

Code:

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerAdmin xxx@xxxxx.es
  ScriptAlias    /code   /var/www/cgi-bin/hg.cgi

<Directory /var/www/cgi-bin>
  AuthType Basic
  AuthName "CDN Team Rocks, please provide your username/password combination."
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from ci-cdn64new
  AuthBasicProvider ldap
  AuthzLDAPAuthoritative off
  AuthLDAPURL ldap://xxxxxxxx.xx.xxxx:389/o=TID?uid?sub?
  require valid-user
  Satisfy any
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

and it works perfectly. Hope it helps you out or at least gives you an idea.

Kind regards,

Eric