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Using Authentication
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Module: mod_auth
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:Author: Jan Kneschke
ate: $Date: 2006-10-04 15:26:23 +0200 (Wed, 04 Oct 2006) $
:Revision: $Revision: 1371 $
:abstract:
The auth module provides ...
.. meta::
:keywords: lighttpd, authentication
.. contents:: Table of Contents
Description
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Supported Methods
-----------------
lighttpd supportes both authentication method described by
RFC 2617:
basic
`````
The Basic method transfers the username and the password in
cleartext over the network (base64 encoded) and might result
in security problems if not used in conjunction with a crypted
channel between client and server.
digest
``````
The Digest method only transfers a hashed value over the
network which performs a lot of work to harden the
authentication process in insecure networks.
Backends
--------
Depending on the method lighttpd provides various way to store
the credentials used for the authentication.
for basic auth:
- plain_
- htpasswd_
- htdigest_
- ldap_
for digest auth:
- plain_
- htdigest_
plain
`````
A file which contains username and the cleartext password
seperated by a colon. Each entry is terminated by a single
newline.::
e.g.:
agent007:secret
htpasswd
````````
A file which contains username and the crypt()'ed password
seperated by a colon. Each entry is terminated by a single
newline. ::
e.g.:
agent007:XWY5JwrAVBXsQ
You can use htpasswd from the apache distribution to manage
those files. ::
$ htpasswd lighttpd.user.htpasswd agent007
htdigest
````````
A file which contains username, realm and the md5()'ed
password seperated by a colon. Each entry is terminated
by a single newline. ::
e.g.:
agent007:download area:8364d0044ef57b3defcfa141e8f77b65
You can use htdigest from the apache distribution to manage
those files. ::
$ htdigest lighttpd.user.htdigest 'download area' agent007
Using md5sum can also generate the password-hash: ::
#!/bin/sh
user=$1
realm=$2
pass=$3
hash=`echo -n "$userrealmpass" | md5sum | cut -b -32`
echo "$userrealmhash"
To use it:
$ htdigest.sh 'agent007' 'download area' 'secret'
agent007:download area:8364d0044ef57b3defcfa141e8f77b65
ldap
````
the ldap backend is basically performing the following steps
to authenticate a user
1. connect anonymously (at plugin init)
2. get DN for filter = username
3. auth against ldap server
4. disconnect
if all 4 steps are performed without any error the user is
authenticated
Configuration
=============
::
## debugging
# 0 for off, 1 for 'auth-ok' messages, 2 for verbose debugging
auth.debug = 0
## type of backend
# plain, htpasswd, ldap or htdigest
auth.backend = "htpasswd"
# filename of the password storage for
# plain
auth.backend.plain.userfile = "lighttpd-plain.user"
## for htpasswd
auth.backend.htpasswd.userfile = "lighttpd-htpasswd.user"
## for htdigest
auth.backend.htdigest.userfile = "lighttpd-htdigest.user"
## for ldap
# the $ in auth.backend.ldap.filter is replaced by the
# 'username' from the login dialog
auth.backend.ldap.hostname = "localhost"
auth.backend.ldap.base-dn = "dc=my-domain,dc=com"
auth.backend.ldap.filter = "(uid=$)"
# if enabled, startTLS needs a valid (base64-encoded) CA
# certificate
auth.backend.ldap.starttls = "enable"
auth.backend.ldap.ca-file = "/etc/CAcertificate.pem"
## restrictions
# set restrictions:
#
# ( <left-part-of-the-url> =>
# ( "method" => "digest"/"basic",
# "realm" => <realm>,
# "require" => "user=<username>" )
# )
#
# <realm> is a string to display in the dialog
# presented to the user and is also used for the
# digest-algorithm and has to match the realm in the
# htdigest file (if used)
#
auth.require = ( "/download/" =>
(
"method" => "digest",
"realm" => "download archiv",
"require" => "user=agent007|user=agent008"
),
"/server-info" =>
(
"method" => "digest",
"realm" => "download archiv",
"require" => "valid-user"
)
)
Limitations
============
- The implementation of digest method is currently not
completely compliant with the standard as it still allows
a replay attack.
