Re: Web Authentication

[Nick Owen <nickowen () mindspring com>]

pimp mastermind wrote:
> I have Slackware 10.1 runing. I am using it as a router and
> fileserver. I use Apache 1.3 for web access. I have some web
> directories which i want to secure more strongly than with htpasswd
> but i dont know any other ways of authentication. Also a lot of my
> scripts in those directories are wirted in PHP Perl and CGI scripting.
> I need to find a better way of authentication? Does any one knows any
> better way of authentication?
> Thank you all in advance for your help

You should be able to easily require different authentication mechanisms
by using the various mod_auth_ tools and the directory or location
directives.  I just finished a doc on setting up apache to use
mod_auth_radius and WiKID for two-factor authentication, which should
help for any form of 2FA with apache:
http://www.wikidsystems.com/howtos/how-to-add-two-factor-authentication-to-apache/

I would be happy if you tried the open source WiKID server.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikid-twofactor/

You will find network client 'plugins' for PHP, ruby, python, etc on our
sf.net site here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=144774 (sorry, no
perl as of yet).

hth,

nick

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Nick Owen
WiKID Systems, Inc.
404.962.8983
http://www.wikidsystems.com
Commercial/Open Source Two-Factor Authentication
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickowen

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