Allow REMOTE_USER to access subdirs

Asif Iqbal iqbala-pam-list at qwestip.net
Sat Mar 12 09:20:36 UTC 2005


On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:44:25AM, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I am looking for a solution where I login to the home page using
> SecurID/RADIUS account. Then I have multiple dirs underneath the home
> page that I like to setup with group authorization and use the
> authenticated credetials of the home page to login without any second
> prompt.
> 
> So if I have two users userone and usertwo. I let them in the homepage
> using their securid/radius account authentication. Underneat the
> homepage I have two dirs called dirone and dirtwo. I want only userone
> OR groupone to be able to access dirone and only usertwo/grouptwo to
> have access authorization in dirtwo without prompting for their
> credentials for the second time. Basically once it gets the REMOTE_USER
> just check that user against before giving it access to the sub
> directories w/o a second login prompt.


I think realm is the answer. Anyone has any other feedback? Thanks


> 
> Thanks for any help/suggestion with this. I am planning to implement it
> with apache 1.3x+ mod_ssl on Solaris 9 
> 

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