[3464] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Password protected HTML
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sameer)
Wed Nov 6 00:38:58 1996
From: sameer <sameer@c2.net>
To: bc17684@90.deere.com (Bert Carroll)
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 19:43:19 -0800 (PST)
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <327FA278.5520@90.deere.com> from "Bert Carroll" at Nov 5, 96 02:24:24 pm
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Using Apache and/or Stronghold you can easily replace the
mod_auth.c module to do whatever authentication you like. In your case
calling the Solaris pwdauth (the Solaris version of pwdauth.. I only
know SunOS) function.
> I want to use the password file that comes with Solaris rather than the
> standard one used by Netscape and other webservers. What I am really
> after is the ability to "age" a password and / or check it against a
> dict file before allowing the user to set weak passwords.
>
> Any ideals? (Yep, I did try the Netscape Manual)
>
> bc17684@90.deere.com
>
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