Re: Using W3-Auth groups

From: Georg Horn (horn@koblenz-net.de)
Date: Mon Dec 13 1999 - 19:46:26 EST


Hi,

> But I discovered that only members of innomach group are able to enter
> private directories. So I added a few tracepoints to w3-msql auth
> module (auth.c) and I discovered that w3-msql is first matching a group
> using ip address with
>
> checkAccess(area,namespace,group) // auth.c line#437
>
> and then uses the group field to match users
>
> checkUser(group, area, namespace); // auth.c line#449
>
> Obviously only the first group can give user access.
>
> Do you know a workaround to this problem?

I had similar problems and stopped using w3-auth. I now use .htaccess
based authentication together with mod_auth_msql for apache. Works fine!

Bye,
Georg

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