Apache directive - require valid-user

[Brian Richardson]

Craig White wrote:
> Is there a way to just have it require a valid user to the system
> (i.e. /etc/passwd or getent passwd) without creating a separate user
> file on disk? I can't seem to get around this.

A quick google for "authenticate apache server with pam" turned up this 
link, which is probably what you're looking for:

mod_auth_external http://www.unixpapa.com/mod_auth_external.html

Brian
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