Re: [hobbit] Securing Hobbit from visitors

[Buchan Milne <bgmilne (at) staff.telkomsa.net>]

On Wednesday 12 March 2008 14:14:41 Josh Luthman wrote:
> This is what I have in httpd.conf that makes me login three times (you can
> tell which three, obviously =)
>
> Alias /hobbit/  "/hobbitdir/server/www/"
> <Directory "/hobbitdir/server/www">
>     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews
>     Order allow,deny
>     Allow from all
>   AuthUserFile /hobbitdir/server/etc/hobbitpasswd
>   AuthType Basic
>   AuthName "Hobbit Monitoring1"
>   Require valid-user
> </Directory>
>
> ScriptAlias /hobbit-cgi/ "/hobbitdir/cgi-bin/"
> <Directory "/hobbitdir/cgi-bin">
>     AllowOverride None
>     Options ExecCGI Includes
>     Order allow,deny
>     Allow from all
>   AuthUserFile /hobbitdir/server/etc/hobbitpasswd
>   AuthType Basic
>   AuthName "Hobbit Monitoring2"
>   Require valid-user
> </Directory>
>
> ScriptAlias /hobbit-seccgi/ "/hobbitdir/cgi-secure/"
> <Directory "/hobbitdir/cgi-secure">
>     AllowOverride None
>     Options ExecCGI Includes
>     Order allow,deny
>     Allow from all
>
>     AuthUserFile /hobbitdir/server/etc/hobbitpasswd
>     AuthGroupFile /hobbitdir/server/etc/hobbitgroups
>     AuthType Basic
>     AuthName "Hobbit Monitoring3"
>     Require valid-user
>     Require group group4admin
> </Directory>

If you use the same AuthName, most likely you users should not need to log in 
more than once. Was there a reason you used different ones.


Regards,
Buchan