Apache auth question

Scott Sipe cscotts at mindspring.com
Tue Mar 7 07:49:36 UTC 2006


On Mar 6, 2006, at 6:52 AM, Glenn Dawson wrote:

> At 03:56 AM 3/6/2006, Scott Sipe wrote:
>
>> I am dealing with a company LAN that lives behind an OpenBSD based
>> firewall+NAT machine. All internal machines have 10.x.x.x addresses.
>>
>> One of the internal machines acts as an intranet webserver. Everyone
>> in the building should be able to access it.
>>
>> I would ALSO like to expose it to the outside, and have outside
>> requests authenticate. So everyone with a 10.x.x.x still has no
>> limits, and external addresses after authenticating with a  
>> username/ password have full access. Is this possible to do with  
>> apache2 config
>> files?
>
> Something like this should do what you want:
>
> <Directory /docroot>
>     AuthType basic
>     AuthName "foo"
>     AuthUserFile /path/to/htpasswds
>     Order Deny,Allow
>     Deny from all
>     Require valid-user
>     Allow from 10.0.0.0/16
>     Satisfy any
> </Directory>

That got it perfectly, adding the "Satisfy any" line was what I had  
been missing.. thanks much!

Scott


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