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- Title: User's Guide for the WN Server
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- Title: Creating your WN data directory
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- password file be sure that these
- non-existent files, requests for files which require a password but for
- which no valid password was given, and requests from an invalid host for
- Auth-denied-file=~/dir/nopassword.html
- invalid host. The last line specifies a file to be sent when a password
- protected file is requested without a password or with an invalid
- password. For technical reasons it wouldn't work to have this be a
- Title: Security on the WN Server
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- password authentication to prevent
- password or .access files) and
- could collect user passwords.
- 4.3 Password Authentication and Restriction by
- The other method of limiting access is by password with the
- scheme. This is about as secure as using passwords with the UNIX
- involves the transmission of essentially unencoded passwords over the
- passwords of other users.
- significantly improve security of password protected directories.
- same password/username combination will be valid, so the client need not
- ask the user for a username and password, but can reuse the one supplied
- collect user passwords. Your users should also be warned never to enter
- their password if the realm displayed when they are prompted for a
- password contains a different hostname than the one in the URL they are
- Title: Setting Up Searches on the WN Server
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- Title: Limiting Access to Your WN Hierarchy
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- whose name and password are in a file on your server
- then requests from that site will be exempt from any password
- requirements (as described below). In other words, no username/password
- 10.2 Limiting Access by Password
- You can also maintain a password file (or files) on your system and
- password. This is the so-called "Basic" authentication described in the
- linked to document is in a password protected directory with limited
- password files. It should be run the first time with the command:
- This prompts you for a realm, a username and password and then creates a
- password file called "filename" with that entry. On subsequent
- number of password entries. Depending on your system, the database may
- files. To remove a single entry from a password file use the command
- uses an MD5 hash of the password, the realm, and random data to encode
- the password. The realm and random data are created when
- This is generally preferable as it is more secure and in particular passwords
- Once you have created your password file and made sure that it is
- check user's passwords and that it should consult the password file
- password file "wnpasswd" you are using a NDBM
- The password file can also be specified with the -P option
- The name of the password file can be given in three different formats:
- Maximum number of matches per file exceeded.
- Title: Users' Hierarchies and Personal Home Pages on the WN server
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- password file to calculate a "home page" directory in the appropriate
- system password file and changes the root data directory to
- the password file but a table supplied by the maintainer. This method is
- in precisely the same way that the password file method does. In other
- table or password file. This name is also discarded and the remainder of
- Title: WN Auxiliary Modules
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- supplied a password which can be reused (if the realm is the same as when
- the password was supplied) or if a new password needs to be entered.
- Title: Default Index Cache Files
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- system password file and it would then be served. It is
- Title: Configuration File for the WN Package
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- * up in the password file and the corresponding home directory with
- Title: Command Line Options for the WN Server
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- password authentication if one of
- password protected directory must be owned by the user id specified
- Title: Index File Directives for the WN Server
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- password file be sure that
- user:password on standard input for Basic
- name and "password" the client supplied password. The
- when an authentication attempt for a password protected directory
- Title: CGI and other Environment Variables for the WN Server
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- Title: Configuration Macros for WN
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- password authentication fails because
- of an incorrect password or username
- If defined then the user's name will be looked up in the password file
- Title: Changelog for WN
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- no cert file was available or password was wrong.
- and keep username/password pairs in an ndbm data base. The
- an HTML doc to use as an error message which password authentication
- then requests from that site will be exempt from any password requirements.
- I.e. no username/password is required for requests from privileged sites,
- a second ':' and everything after it in a line of the password file.
- This allows lines of the form "usr:encrypted_password:other_comments.
- Fixed bug in bin/mkpasswd which required a password file to exist
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Last modified: Sat June 18 2005
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