[8252] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Security on the CERN server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ton Verschuren)
Thu May 25 07:05:46 1995
Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 07:24:25 +0500
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From: Ton Verschuren <Ton.Verschuren@surfnet.nl>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
==> From: Adam Shenker
I think it's a bug (or feature ?-) in CERN httpd3.0: you can't use
ACL's for user dirs (those URL's with a "~" or ~%7E").
Cheers,
Ton Verschuren - Network Development - SURFnet bv
http://www.nic.surfnet.nl/surfnet/persons/tv/
>
> Dear All,
>
>
> I am having difficulties in setting password control on our server (CERN HTTP
3.0
> running on SUNOS 4.1.3_U1).
>
> I have followed the User Guide instructions in detail, and have tried
> setting up both the 'Embedded Protection setup in the Configuration File'
> and the 'ACL' Setup.
>
> With the Embedded protection, the server when initialised acknowledges that
> certain file areas have protection set for them, but when that area is
> accessed, the server (running in Verbose Mode) says that no protection has
> been set up.
>
> When using the ACL protection Methodology, all users are locked out of the
> area.
>
> Also, the User Guide only defines 'basic' as a legal 'AuthType' variable -
> what other possibilities are there?
>
> Has Anybody had similar problems to these? Does anybody know of any solutions
?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adam
