[2542] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Apache authentication module
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent Cearley)
Mon Jul 29 13:17:56 1996
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 08:25:45 -0600
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
From: Kent Cearley <Kent.Cearley@wizard.cusys.edu>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
>We have a cool one that uses RADIUS so that you don't have to deal with
>all the intricacies of whta the underlying sysmte is.
>
>RADIUS has a lot of support, and you can run radiusd on just about
>anything.
I was under the impression that Radius provides a proprietary security
protocol for but does little to nothing to extend the
authentication/authorization model of the web browser/server interaction.
Are you using Radius for more than just another backend authentication
database? Can it use and manipulate the native directory authorizations of
NCSA/Apache or Netscape?
-Thanks
-Kent Cearley
University of Colorado, Boulder
